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Pitblication Committee for Volume VI.

ROLLA P. CURRIE, HARRISON G. DYAR, E. A. ScHWARZ,

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MAY 14, 1903.

The lySth regular meeting was held in the Saengerbund Hall,
3140 street, N.W., Dr. Howard in the chair, and Messrs. Ash-
mead, Benton, Busck, Currie, Doolittle, Dyar, Gill, Heidemann,
Kotinsky, Morris, Schwarz, Simpson, Ulke and Warner, mem
bers, and Mr. H. Bolce, visitor, also present.

Mr. H^ Bolce, of the Treasury Department, was elected an
active member of the Society.

Dr. Howard presented a note on a letter from Dr. Fletcher,
wherein the latter reported black flies (Simulium colum-
batczense Schoenbauer) entering the anus and vulva of domestic
animals.

Mr. Ashmead exhibited drawings to illustrate his mono
graph of the North American Braconidae, soon to be published
by the National Museum, and accompanied the exhibition by
remarks illustrating the characters of the various genera "repre
sented by these drawings. Among other things he said that in
many instances he was led to detect generic and tribal characters
by a knowledge of the habits of the insect. His notes were dis
cussed by Messrs. Howard, Gill, Schwarz and Benton.

Dr. Howard stated that in November, 1891, he read a paper
before the Association of Economic Entomologists at Champaign,

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Illinois,* in which, in discussing the host relations of parasitic
Hymenoptera, he advanced the idea that the classification of the
group would undoubtedly be affected by a more accurate know
ledge of host relations, and entered a plea for careful records.
He was therefore greatly pleased to see from Mr. Ashmead's
statements that the exact knowledge of habits, largely due to the
work of Washington entomologists, had led Mr. Ashmead to
discoveries affecting classification, thus justifying the 12-year-old
prophecy. He referred especially to the new genus separated from
Bracon to which Mr. Ashmead's attention had been called by
the fact that all of the members were parasitic upon Cecido-
myiidae instead of upon beetles, as is the general rule with the
genus Bracon.

Mr. Ashmead stated that he had discovered that the tribes of
Cynipidae which he had erected correspond exactly with the
groups of plants on which they make their galls, such as Quercub,
Rosacese, Acacia, etc. ; and, on the other hand, from the nature
of the host, he had been enabled to explain the differences in
structure.

Mr. Busck then read extracts from his paper on the generic
name of the codling moth.t

The paper was discussed by Messrs. Schwarz, Simpson,
Howard, Dyar and Gill.

Dr. Dyar mentioned a peculiar Lepidopterous larva which
had been seen by several members of the Society at Plummer's
Island, Maryland. It occurs only in spring. Mr. Barber
brought in some last May (May, 1902), and the first moth had
just emerged (April, 1903). The plant is Rhacelia dubia, ac
cording to Mr. Morris ; the larvae live exposed on the plant and
are brightly colored. The moth that emerged is not well
developed and the color seems grayer than normal, but other
wise it agrees exactly with specimens of Ethmia zellericlla
Chambers, from Texas. The following description of the larva
was handed to the Secretary for publication :

* See Insect Life. in. No. 6. p. 277, March. 1891.
f Published in Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc , xi, No. 2, pp. 106-111, June, 1903

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DESCRIPTION OF THE LARVA OF ETHMIA ZELLERIELLA

CHAMBERS.

By HARRISON G. DYAR.

Head rounded, apex retracted, clypeus high ; black; a green
ish white mark in the upper half of the clypeus and a rounded
spot on each side, separated only by the black suture ; epistoma
and basal antennal joint pale ; width, 1.2 mm. Body cylindrical,
normal, the ends very slightly tapering; segmental incisures dis
tinct, weakly 2-annulate. Whitish opaque, a diffuse yellow
dorsal band, the lateral region likewise yellowish shaded ; no
shields; joints 2 and 3 subdorsally blotched in smoky bla,ck, the
marks joining dorsally on joint 3 ; joints 4-5 anteriorly banded in
smoky, velvety black, solidly except for dorsal and lateral an
terior notch on joint 4 ; smoky ventrally. A rounded dorsal
black spot on the segments and a smaller one in the incisure ;
a broad dark gray subdorsal shade, diffuse above, sharp below,
sending a thick arm across to each spiracle, obliquely, posteriorly ;
slight subventral gray spottings, heavier on joints 2 and 3 ; anal
shield sooty. Tubercles in large, round, velvety black spots,
i dorsad-anterior to ii, iv and v united, vii of three seise, on the
anterior leg base on a pale ground; on thorax ia-hib, iia+iib,
iv-fv. Thoracic feet black ; setas long, black ; abdominal feet
slender, pale.

Dr. Dyar presented also a description of the larva of Lito-
donta hydromeli. Mr. Schwarz had found the larva again, this
time in Key West, Florida, and he brought home two examples,
which have been nicely inflated for the collection by Mr. Cau-
dell. They were feeding on Bumelia angustifolia.

DESCRIPTION OF THE LARVA OF LITODONTA HYDRO
MELI HARVEY.

By HARRISON G. DYAR.

Egg. Two-thirds spherical, the base flat; dull whitish green, uniform,
obscurely but finely, neatly reticu-late, the reticulations very slightly
raised, hexagonal, with pores at the angles, looking like whitish dots,
obscure; surface a little frosted. Diameter, r mm.; height, .65 mm.

Larva, stage V. The larvae are sluggish, not moving when touched.
They hold the tail elevated continuallj'. Head higher than wide, slightly
bilobed, flattened before, clypeus strongly constricted, reaching about one-
third to the vertex; erect, apex higher than joint 2; median suture de
pressed near vertex; dark purplish, reticulate mottled with blackish,
pinkish behind and in a spot reaching a distance down the angle of each

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lobe; width, 2.8 mm. Body somewhat flattened, the venter flat, sub-
stigmatal ridge distinct and the body above slightly triangularly shaped
in section, or at least appearing so. A pair of low, polished, conical,
rudimentary horns on joint 2 anteriorly; anal feet very minute, not used,
the rim of subventral ridge running smoothly around. Soft green ; a
distinct white line on substigmatal ridge, faintly yellow on joints 2 to 4.
distinctly so on joints n to 13 and round the anal rim, horn stubs purple
brown, the area between them mottled in white and purple, a white edge
behind; a yellow dorsal line from the horns over joints 2 to 5 expands on
joints 6 to 10 into a patch of creamy white mottled with pinkish and
purple, which may be narrow or broad, light or dark, and is expanded in
the center of the segments. In the narrow form it stops at the end ot
joint 10 and is continued by the shadow of a pale dorsal line; in the
broad form a diminishing dark purple stripe runs to the anal plate. On
the thorax subdorsal and lateral fine faint yellow lines, which become
broken into obliques on the abdomen, running from subdorsal anterior on
one segment backwards to stigmatal posterior on the next; the last, on
joints 11-12, is rather the heaviest and is followed by a weak subdorsal
line oh joints 12-13, not oblique. The surface is finely peppered in purple
and white, the oblique lines being without these dots. Spiracles ocherous,
feet reddish ; abdominal feet of joints 7 to 10 heavily mottled in purple
and white over their bases and, in the dark specimen, up to the substig
matal line covering joints 6 to n.

Cocoon slight, like thin parchment, spun among leaves at the
surface of the ground.

Dr. Dyar mentioned another result of Mr. Schwarz's brief
stop at Key West, namely, the determination of the food plant
of Mieza igninix Walker. These larvae were found on the
Bumelia august if oli a with the Litodonta larva, and a moth
has just emerged. According to Dr. Dyar this is undoubtedly
the same plant on which Mrs. Slosson originally found the
species, but it was unidentified then and has remained so till
now.* It might be well, he said, to note that the figure of
Abbot identified by Packard t *s>-Eustixia pupttla Hiibn., really
represents this Mieza.

The following paper, by Mr. Caudell, was then read by the
Secretary :

*Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., iv. p. 86 ? 1896.
t Amer. Nat , iv, p. 229, 1870.

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BRANCHED HAIRS OF HYMENOPTERA.
By A. N. CAUDELL.

Several years ago, in an attempt to determine which of our
Hymenoptera possess branched hairs, I examined almost two
hundred species, including representatives of all the families. Of
these species twenty-three only possessed branched hairs, the
others having only simple ones, which, in some cases, were
spirally twisted. Without exception the twenty-three species
bearing branched hairs proved to belong to the group Antho-
phila, or pollen-gatherers, and no representative of this group
was found without such hairs. Thus the possession of branched
hairs seems a good character for the separation of the Antho-
phila from the remainder of the Hymenoptera. This character
has indeed been used by some writers.

Of the Anthophila somewhat critical studies of the hairs from
various portions of the body were made for the purpose of learn
ing the distribution of the various forms, and at which portion
of the body they were the most often found. Characters among
the hairs for the subdivision of the group were also sought for.

It has generally been stated that branched hairs are found
especially on those portions of the insect's body that are used in
gathering pollen. In my investigations I examined hairs from
the head, dorsal surface of the thorax, dorsal and ventral sur
faces of the abdomen, posterior tibiae and basal segment of the
posterior tarsus. I found that of these six regions the dorsal
surface of the thorax alone possesses branched hairs as a constant
character. The thorax must, therefore, be considered the typical
branched-hair bearing region, as it is the only place where such
hairs are found to be always present. If exceptions should be
found to occur here also upon further investigation, is not known.

The invariable presence of branched hairs on the top of the
thorax seems a wise providence of nature for facilitating the
cross fertilization of plants.

In regard to finding hair characters for the subdivision of the
Anthophila I met with no success. While the forms of hairs
vary from one- to many-barbed and from short serrations to
long branches, the various kinds are distributed among the
genera in such a manner as to be, apparently, of no systematic
importance. The hairs of closely related genera, as Bombus
and Psithyrus, present no characters for their separation or for
the separation of such genera from ones remotely related. Nor
do the hairs of the Andrenidae seem to differ from those of the
ApidaB any more than they do as between different genera.

This subject seems to have received less study than its interest

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appears to warrant. The main, and almost the only article of
any length, based upon original research, so far as I can find, is
by Edward Saunders in the Transactions Entomological Society of
London for 1878. This author examined the hairs of one or
more species of almost all the genera of British Aculeate Hyme-
noptera, but none of the Terebrantia. He found that, without
exception, members of the Anthophila alone possessed branched
or plumose hairs, and he later used that character in classifica
tion.

As to the use of these branched hairs there seems to be con
siderable doubt. Mr. Saunders suggests that they are of use in
gathering pollen. As they are characteristic of pollen-gathering
groups they are, doubtless, of use in that connection, but that
their only use is for gathering pollen is not proved. If such
were the case we would scarcely expect to find branched hairs
present on parasitic species, such as those of the genus Nomada,
or absent from the special pollen-collecting portions of the body
of some pollenizing species, such as the posterior tarsus of the
honey bee. But Coburn states that the explanation of these hairs
being pollen-collecting hairs is so plausible as to exclude all other
hypotheses. The same author mentions the members of the genera
Ceratina and Prosopis as being without hairs. This is disputed
by Saunders, who claims that .they do possess a few hairs which
retain the character of being branched.

Besides Saunders and Coburn the presence of branched or
plumose hairs in the Hymenoptera has been mentioned by Reau
mur, Smith, Dimmock and others, but the article by Saunders
seems to be the only one of considerable length or importance.
Dimmock has given an interesting discussion of the scales of
Coleoptera in Psyche for 1883. He found, as previously pointed
out by Fisher, that branched scales or hairs occur only in the
Scarabasida?.

Mr. Benton said that the branched and twisted hairs on the
thorax of bees are necessary for collecting pollen, as the bees
twist and turn ; whereas the hairs on the legs are used only
for combing and brushing that pollen off.

Dr. Dyar called attention to the different dates of hatching
of hibernated mosquito eggs according to the species. Eggs of
Culex canadensis and Culex atropalpus had hatched in March,
while those of Culex triseriatus were just hatching then (mid
dle of. May). These eggs had been deposited at various dates
during the summer of 1902.

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Dr. Howard related an interesting case in which mosquitoes
had been made the subject of a law-suit. There was an outbreak
of malaria in Greensboro, N. C., which was attributed to Anoph
eles breeding in a mill pond owned by Cone Bros., of that
place. An injunction was sought against these gentlemen, by
the State board of health, to restrain them from maintaining the
dam and pond. To abolish this would have entailed the ruin of
the community. Cone Bros., therefore, engaged expert entomolo
gists, among whom were the narrator and Mr. F. C. Pratt, who
demonstrated that while Anopheles was breeding in every pool in
and about the village, not a single larva was to be found in the mill
pond. Upon a question from Mr. Benton, Dr. Howard explained
that this was partly because the water surface of the mill pond was
so large as to be constantly disturbed by rain and wind, rendering
it unsuitable for the breeding of mosquitoes. Cone Bros, further
offered prizes of $50 to the physicians of the village, some 13
in number, for every Anopheles larva they could find in the
pond. Only one of them succeeded in finding a dilapidated
Anopheles larva, for which he duly received his prize. Six of
these physicians then served as witnesses for the defendant, and the
case ultimately grew so strong against the State that it was dis
missed.

Mr. Schwarz stated that on his return from Cuba he stopped
for a short time at Key West, Fla., to collect certain Scolytid
beetles which he discovered there in 1887. To his sorrow he
found that all the fig-trees, mastic-trees and various other tropical
trees had been cut down and Scolytids had disappeared from the
island. Some other interesting insects were found, however.
For some years a flowering tree of large size ( Cordia sebestana]
had been introduced into the gardens of Key West, and the leaves
of this tree were being devoured by a large Cassidid beetle (Eury-
peplajamaicensis Linnaeus) , Which has hitherto not been noticed
from the United States. Both the plant and the beetle are now
thoroughly acclimatized in Key West. All over the island of
Cuba blossoms of the cultivated egg-plant were infested by a
little weevil (Anthonomus varipes Duval). The original wild
food-plant of the species was found to be an arborescent solana-
ceous plant (Solatium torvum) . This same weed had of late

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years invaded the tropical parts of Florida, and the same Antho-
nomus was found in abundance on Key West. The same beetle
had been collected previously by Mrs. A. T. Slosson at Miami,
but the species was not properly recognized at that time.

Mr. Schwarz exhibited, also, leaves of the Indian Laurel
{Fic2is indica}, which is planted extensively both in Cuba and
on Key West as a shade tree. On all the trees examined the
leaves of the terminal twigs were found to be tightly rolled up,
so that it appeared as if those twigs were dead and destitute of
leaves. The author of this mischief proved to be a species of
Phloeotkrips (named by Mr. T. Pergande), and observations
showed that a number of females congregate on the upper side
of the leaves to deposit their eggs, whereupon the latter begin to
curl up. Mr. Schwarz stated that he was not aware that any
species of Thripidae with such social habits was referred to in
the literature.

Mr. Currie then read a note, by Mr. Caudell, on "The
Blattid Fauna of the World." The author stated that he had
just completed a catalogue of the cockroaches of the entire world,
with the intention of having it published, together with cata
logues of the other non-saltatorial families of Orthoptera. He
found, however, that the same work was being done by W. F.
Kirby, of the British Museum. Better facilities for such work,
in the way of more complete collections and literature, were found
in England, and so he had given over the thought of publishing.
As worked out in a manuscript catalogue, the Blattid Fauna of
the World results as follows: Of genera there are 222 de
scribed, 33 of which are synonyms, leaving 189 valid. Of
described species there are 1,886, 202 being synonyms, leaving
1,684 gd species.

Mr. Heidemann read a note and exhibited drawings of the
genitalia of Podisus cyntcusSay, and P. bracteatus Fitch, and
called attention to the important differences between these two
species. He has presented for publication the following paper
on the subject :

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REMARKS ON THE GENITALIA OF PODISUS CYNICUS SAY
AND PODISUS BRACTEATUS FITCH.

By OTTO HEIDEMANN.

Mr. A. N. Caudell read a paper* " Some Insects from the
Summit of Pike's Peak, Found on Snow" before the Entomo
logical Society, of Washington, February 13, 1902. The insects
were collected by him and the specimens of the order Hemiptera
were turned over to me for determination. In his paper I have
given the following account in referring to numerous specimens
of the species Podisus cynicus Say :

"Twelve adults, males and females. Six of these specimens
evidently belong to another species, probably Podisus bracteatus
Fitch. This species is considered by some American authors as
synonymous with Podisus cynicus Say. But the writer has
lately had occasion to examine Fitch's type-specimen, a female
(U. S. Nat. Mus.), and to compare the same with specimens of
P. cynicus Say, and there seems to him no doubt that P. brac
teatus Fitch will have to stand as a separate species. The
female genitalia are decidedly distinct in these two forms; there
are also differences in the shape of the bodv, which in P. brac
teatus is comparatively broader and shorter. However, more
material from other localities will have to be examined, and
especially the male characters, before a definite conclusion can
be reached."

Since then I have had the opportunity of examining many
more specimens from different localities, and have found that the
male genitalia also are very distinct in these two species. This
character is evidently of most importance in separating the species
of the genus Podisus. because all the other characters formerly
used, such as the shape of pronotum, the punctures and colors,
are not constant in the specimens. The accompanying drawing
(Fig. i) will show more decidedly the differences between these
two species.

In Podisiis cynicus, female (A, 2), the inner margins of the
side pieces of the first genital segment are cut straight, giving the
middle plate a square appearance ; while in P. bracteatus, on
the contrary (B, 2), these margins are obliquely formed, making
the middle plate distinctly triangular. The male genitalia differ
still more, as may be readily observed in the drawing. The
ventral terminal segment of the abdomen forms quite a deep
cavity, from which a kind of clasper protrudes on both sides of
the cavity, termed by Dr. D. Sharp "the superior lateral pro-

*Proc. Ent. Soc., Washington, v, No. i, p. 80, 1902.

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ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY

cess," in his well-known paper, " On the Structure of the Ter
minal Segment in Some Male Hemiptera."* In P. cynicus,

"Trial i <^b JtmaU

Podisus cynicus Say-

A 2

VEX1ML VIEIV TirstGenital Segment

Podisus bracfeafus fifch
B

rectal- caiida, ,

lateral 'appendage
| seen somewhat from, behind-

FIG. i.

male (A, i), this process is short, comparatively broad and rather
flat ; but in the other species (B, i), it is peculiarly twisted from
the base, narrow and more acutely pointed. Directly underneath
these parts, also, a pair of so-called lateral appendages extend
straight forward, which in P. cynicus are short and club-like in
shape. P. bracteatus, on the contrary, has these appendages
very long, reaching the outer edge of the cavity, and cylindrical
in form. In the middle of the cavity there is another piece, the
rectal cauda, covering the inner organs of the genitalia. To
bring out these inner parts would need careful dissection. Any
how, the shape of the exterior parts, the superior lateral processes
and the lateral appendages furnish sufficient characters for dis
tinguishing Podisus cynicus Say at once from Podisus brac-
teatus Fitch.

* Trans. Ent. Soc. London, pp. 399-425, 1890.

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Mr. Simpson exhibited a collection made by Mr. Caudell of
miscellaneous insects caught on the sticky secretions of the moun
tain laurel (Ka/mia latifolia). He also showed specimens of
dead branches of apple trees that were once infested by codling
moth pupae, and which were made a point of attack by wood
peckers.

JUNE 18, 1903.

The 1 79th regular meeting was held at the residence of Dr.
C. W. Stiles, 1718 Q^ street N.W. Vice-President Banks in
the chair, and Messrs. Dodge, Gill, Heidemann, Kotinsky, Mar-
latt, Patten and Stiles, members, and Mr. Grayton Ransom,
visitor, also present.

Mr. Grayton Ransom, of the Bureau of Animal Industry,
U. S. Department of Agriculture, was elected an active member
of the Society.

Dr. Stiles moved that the congratulations of the Society be
telegraphed to Mr. Ash mead at Pittsburg, in view of the fact
that the doctorate was to be conferred upon him on that date by
the Western University of Pennsylvania. The motion was unani
mously carried, and Dr. Stiles was asked to word and send the
telegram.

Mr. Schwarz exhibited a specimen of the Curculionid beetle
Hormo'ps abducens LeConte, which he collected at Plummer's
Island, Maryland, in May, and which is a new accession to the
fauna of the District. Only one specimen of this species was
previously recorded, found by Hubbard and Schwarz at Capron,
Fla.

Dr. Gill asked Mr. Schwarz whether the larvae of Calandrid
beetles were used as food on the island of Cuba. Mr. Schwarz
replied that to his knowledge they were not so used in Cuba.

Mr. Heidemann exhibited a male specimen of Aradus qtiad*
rilineatus Say, which he found in a decaying trunk. In his col
lection he had specimens from Canada and from Cleveland, Ohio,
and also one specimen coming from Georgia. He exhibited also
a specimen of Aradus robustus Uhler, which he had usually ob
tained by beating trees, but last week he found an old trunk of

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Gleditschia triacanthus, in the crevices of the bark of which
he found a number of specimens of this species. He further
stated that in the collection of insects made by Mr. Franklin
Sherman, Jr., in North Carolina, he found a Reduviid belonging
to the sub-family Stenopodinae, near the genus Gnathoblcda,
which Champion described and figured as Schumannia mexi-
cana, in The Biologia Central!- Americana. The description was
based on one specimen which came from Vera Cruz, Mexico, and it
was remarkable, he said, that this same species should have been
found in North Carolina. The genus is distinguished by the
narrow thorax and the strong, long spines on the trochanter.

Mr. Schwarz stated that he had a list of the injurious in
sects of Cuba as observed by him this spring. The champion
of all injurious insects there is Atta cephalotes, the leaf-cutting
ant. The next place, however, should be given to a species of
myriapod, which plays there the role of our cutworms. It eats
and injures anything that is cultivated, such as strawberry, cab
bage, egg-plant, young orange trees, etc. Where he had been
called to find the cause of injury to cultivated vegetation, he had
always found this pest to be the author of it. Mr. O. F. Cook
identified it as Orthomorpha coarctata Saussure, a species
which, Mr. Cook stated, probably came originally from the
East Indies. The only remedy that Mr. Schwarz could sug
gest against these pests was to put ashes or tobacco dust sweepings
upon the ground. He found these creatures especially abundant
after a rain.

Mr. Dodge then presented his paper entitled " Gloveriana."
He stated that 15 years ago he had published Townend Glover's
biography.* The information for this he had gathered from a
scrap-book, which was made up of MS. notes and plates made by
Glover. He gave the stages of evolution in the making of
Glover's plates, which were at first of pocket size and of in
sects only, so that they might be conveniently carried in a pocket
notebook. Later he determined to have drawings of the plants
infested to accompany those of the insects, and later still he had
thought of undertaking to publish and illustrate the insect fauna
of the entire United States. Mr. Dodge exhibited these scrap-

*Bull. Div. Ent. U. S. Dept. Agr., No 18, 1888.

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books, containing drawings that were made as long ago as 1850,
and a letter that T. W. Harris at one time wrote to Glover pro
posing that they work together.

Upon a question from Mr. Schwarz, Dr. Gill stated that
Glover's works should be regarded as publications, because they
were put in permanent condition and copyrighted. Mr. Dodge
stated that fifteen complete sets were issued and distributed to
institutions and individuals. Prof. Glover commenced with the
Orthoptera and then followed with the Diptera and the Hete-
roptera. Mr. Schwarz stated that Glover's works were not
recognized as publications, and Dr. Dyar had correctly omitted
them from his catalogue. Mr. Dodge replied that Dr. Hagen
recognized them as publications. Mr. Schwarz stated that
Glover named but one insect during his lifetime, and this species,
Psylla nigripennis, he named only by accident. Dr. Gill re
called that at one time Glover had asked him to take up the study
of spiders. Upon a question from Mr. Schwarz as to what be
came of the specimens from which Glover made his drawings,
Mr. Dodge replied that Glover had no use for specimens after he
had drawn them. Glover refused absolutely to use any ade
quately prepared material for his work ; besides, many speci
mens came from collectors, and were returned to them. Mr.
Schwarz said that he could still recognize some of Glover's
specimens in the old collection of the United States National
Museum.

Mr. Schwarz then read the following :

THE COTTON-BOLL WEEVIL IN CUBA.

(Anthonomus grandis Boheman.)

By E. A. SCHWARZ.

Many years ago Dr. Juan Gundlach found Anthonomus
grandis in Cuba, in the central portion, near Cardenas, and in
the western. portion, near San Cristobal, but no information on
its mode of life or food-plant was furnished by him. In the year
1892 Mr. Eduardo Ferrer, one of the most prominent agri
culturists of Cuba, planted at Cayamas, in the southern portion
of the province of Sta. Clara, two small fields of Egyptian
cotton, the two fields being about two miles distant from each
other. One of these was attacked by the Anthonomus as soon

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as the plants commenced to produce squares, and not a single
pound of cotton has been harvested from this field. During this
time the second field remained intact and produced a large
amount of cotton, until about five months later (December, 1892),
when the weevil infested this field,, too, and before the middle of
February the plants had ceased to produce bolls or even flowers,
the weevils infesting and destroying every square that made its
appearance.

Toward the end of February the writer was commissioned by
Dr. L. O. Howard to proceed to Cayamas, Cuba, in order to find
out, if possible, the original food-plant of the Anthonomus, a
point in the natural history of the insect which had hitherto re
mained unknown. Up to the time of my visit to Cuba I had
shared in the opinion held by many entomologists connected with
the Boll-weevil investigation, that the original food-plant of the
weevil would prove to be some Malvaceous plant generically dif
ferent from Gossypium ; accordingly, some time was at first
spent by me at Cayamas in investigating every Malvaceous
plant,* although with no success.

Previous to my arrival, and as soon as the weevils infested his
cultivated cotton, Mr. Ferrer had examined the wild cotton plants
growing in the vicinity of his cultivated fields, but without find
ing any trace of the insect. As a matter of course, the very first
thing I did upon my arrival on the spot was to closely re-examine
these plants, but they proved to be free from weevils. However,
soon afterwards the insect was found breeding on wild cotton in
many places around Cayamas.

There are two distinct species of wild cotton in Cuba, both
of them arborescent and perennial plants, which, if undisturbed,
attain a great age. Even when growing among the dense, tall
grasses and weeds they reach a height of from eight to ten feet,
and, when growing under more favorable conditions, are often
fifteen or more feet in height. The species never intergrade with
each other, although they are difficult to distinguish without ex
amination of the ripe bolls.

The first of these species is called by the Cubans the " Loose "
or "Wild" cotton, " algodcn sylvestre." It isprobably the Gossyp
ium brasiliense of the botanists. In general appearance, and
in the arrangement and nature of the seeds, it greatly resembles
our sea-island cotton, but is very much taller and has a shorter

*The youngand more succulent fruits ofa species of Malvastrum showed
holes exactly corresponding in size with the punctures of the Antho
nomus, but thev proved to be made by the larva of a Microlepidopteron
(the particular species has not been bred), which feeds on the undeveloped
seeds.

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fiber. A number of varieties of this species occur, some of
which, if properly cultivated, would no doubt be of considerable
commercial value.

The second species, the "kidney" cotton, or " algodon de
vinon," of the Cubans, is extremely distinct from the fact that
the seeds are consolidated into kidney-shaped masses. The
species is not variable, and manifestly represents an ancient type
unchanged by the hand of man. It is, at present time, without
commercial value since the fiber cannot be ginned by any ma
chinery now in use.

Neither species is exactly what we would call a wild plant, for,
since prehistoric times, the natives have taken care of the plants,
and have used the fiber for all sorts of domestic purposes. At
present the Cubans living either in the suburbs of the cities or
in the open country usually have one or two, rarely more, cotton
trees planted in their yards or gardens ; but many plants, usually in
groups of several specimens each, may be found in the less in
habited parts of the island remote from any human habitation.
The present natives know the exact location of every cotton plant
in their vicinity, although apparently growing perfectly wild. Mr.
Ferrer informs me, however, that in such instances there was
probably a hut or a settlement on the place in former times.

In the province of Sta. Clara both species of wild cotton occur
in about equal numbers, while in the vicinity of Havana the loose
cotton prevails, and the kidney cotton is met with in exceptional
instances only.

The following is a short summary of the examination made
by Mr. Ferrer and myself of every wild cotton plant growing
within easy reach around Cayamas. We had also the kind assist
ance of several planters who took an interest in this subject.
Finally, a man was hired and trained, who visited, within a fort
night, about 90 more remote localities, bringing samples of in
fested squares or bolls of every wild cotton plant he met with.

Anthonomus grandis is never common, usually rare, on the
wild cotton plants, and is never appreciably injurious to them.
To find ten, or even less, infested squares or bolls on a large-
sized tree requires considerable time, even for an experienced
field entomologist. Solitary plants are usually free from weevils
while small groups of plants are occasionally free. In a single
instance, a patch of about 50 plants of kidney cotton was found
remote from any house, and here the weevils were more numer
ous than elsewhere. I calculated that about one square* out of
fifteen was infested, which percentage, however, did not prevent
the plants from being covered with healthy flowers and bolls.

*On the wild cotton of Cuba, the Anthonomus prefers the squares to the
bolls for the purpose of oviposition.

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The kidney cotton is much preferred by the Anthonomus to
the loose cotton. In fact, trees of the latter species, if growing
by themselves, are, as a rule, not infested,* whereas if they
grow in close proximity to the kidney cotton they are liable to
infestation, although always in a lesser degree than the kidney
cotton.

From these observations I firmly believe that, as far as Cuba
is concerned, the kidney cotton is the original food-plant of the
weevil. Furthermore, I do not hesitate to assert, after my
experience in Cuba, that Anthonomus grandis, wherever it
occurs, has no other food-plants than the various species or vari
eties of the genus Gossypium. The few scattered notes that Dr.
Howard has been able to obtain regarding the boll-weevil in the
more tropical parts of Central America appear to corroborate the
conclusions obtained in Cuba.

Whether Anthonomus grandis and its food-plant are natives
of Cuba, or whether both have, in ancient times, been imported
from the Central American continent, is a question the answer to
which seems to be lost in antiquity.

In the cotton belts of Texas and Northern Mexico by far the
largest number of the weevils perish, from various causes, during
the cold season. Only a few successfully hibernate, and form,
in the ensuing spring, the nucleus of a new set of generations,
the weevils increasing in numbers until late in the fall. The
mild winter temperature of Cuba, however, does not prevent the
cotton plants from producing new squares, flowers, or bolls, nor
the Anthonomus from breeding. As to the plant's of the culti
vated cotton in Cuba, some retardation in growth is noticeable
during the colder months, and the number of weevils upon them
is then lessened from the inability of the plants to produce suffi
cient food supply. But the wild cotton plants of Cuba are in no
way affected by the colder weather ; nevertheless, the weevils
have never been known, either in winter or summer time, to be
come numerous enough to prevent these plants from copiously
flowering or ripening their bolls ; whereas, as stated above, the
effect of the attack of the weevil on cultivated cotton resulted,
within a few weeks, in the complete disappearance of flowers
and bolls. The same phenomenon has been observed in many
other species of insects which are not, or but little, injurious to
their original food-plants, but which, when transferred to the
same or an allied plant under cultivation, become very destructive.

To the question of parasites of the boll-weevil much attention
was paid by me while in Cuba, but upon opening many hundreds

* It is probably for this reason that I failed to find the weevil in the
vicinity of Havana.

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of infested squares or bolls I never saw the slightest trace of a
parasite. From the cultivated fields about 400 infested squares
were collected and a correspondingly large number of weevils
were bred from them, but not a single specimen of a parasite was
obtained.

The above notes are abstracted from my letters written to Dr.
Howard.

In the discussion Mr. Banks suggested that the loose cotton
might have been the original food plant, because it is less injured,
which is usually the case with abandoned food plants ; to which
Mr. Schwarz replied that this may be correct, if proven. He
further stated that the Gossypium brasiliense is probably also
found in South America, yet Koebele never found a specimen of
the weevil when he explored the cotton regions near Bahia and
Pernambuco. The distribution of the insect shows it to be of
Central American origin. Mr. Marlatt stated that it would be
of great interest to know whether these cottons are immune to
weevil. At present they are scattered, there being but few plants
grown on a large area, and therefore they are not more seriously
infested ; but he wondered if the habits of the insect would not
change were these plants grown on a large scale. He thought
that the chances were rather in favor of it since, where plants
are more abundant, the insect is found in proportionately larger
numbers. This was further discussed by Messrs. Gill and Dodge.
Mr. Schw r arz stated that his host, Mr. Ferrer, of Cayamas, had
published a series of important articles in the " Diario de la
Marina," of Havana, Cuba (issues of March 21 to March 27,
1903), on the history of cotton and on cotton cultivation in Cuba,
which included a chapter on the boll-weevil.

OCTOBER 8, 1903.

The iSoth regular meeting was held at the residence of Dr.
H. G. Dyar, 1512 Twenty-first street, N.W. Vice-President
Banks occupied the chair, and Messrs. Ashmead, Barber, Busck,
Currie, Doolittle, Dyar, Gill, Heidemann, Howard, Kotinsky,
Marlatt, Morris, Schwarz and Waite, members, and Mr. E. S.
G. Titus, visitor, also present.

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Mr. E. S. G. Titus, of the Division of Entomology, U. S.
Department of Agriculture, was elected an active member of the
Society.

Dr. Dyar exhibited moths and larvae of three species of
Diacrisia (formerly Antarctia], and presented for publication
the following :

NOTE ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE RED FORMS OF

DIACRISIA.

By HARRISON G. DYAR.

We have recognized, heretofore two species of Diacrisia from
the West, rubra Neumcegen and vagans Boisduval. There ex
ists a third in the mountains about Kootenay Lake, which I would
distinguish as D '. kasloa in the following synoptic form :

(^ smaller than 9 the wings thinly scaled and somewhat transparent.

(^ blackish or red, 9 brownish red, hind wings dark rubra.

(^ as large as 9> the wings thickly scaled.

$ light mouse gray or blackish; 9 re ^ brown vag-ans.

cf and 9 alike, bright red kasloa.

Diacrisia kasloa, n. sp.

$ with the thorax and fore wings dark red brown to bright crimson,
marked by a few dusky scales, indicating discal dot and outer line; hind
wings black, veins and fringe more or less broadly reddish.

9 deep crimson, the fore wings scarcely marked ; hind wings black on
basal five-sixths or the black reduced to discal dot, broken submarginal
band and shading along inner margin. Size and shape of vagans.

D. vagans occurs in California and extends much to the East. I
have typical examples from Rossland, B. C., not very far from
Kootenay Lake. At Kaslo, on the lake, however, all the specimens
are of the bright red form. JD. rubra occupies the northern
Pacific Coast region and extends as far as Mount Hood, Oregon.
It may prove that the three forms are but "geographical races of
one species, though they certainly appear distinct, and must be
kept separate for the present at least. The larvae of kasloa were
obtained by me at Kaslo, B. C. ; those of rubra were bred from
eggs kindly sent by Rev. G. W. Taylor from Wellington, B. C.
They are alike. .Stretch's description of the c? vagans larva
differs in being darker, the dorsal warts and hairs blackish instead
of brown ; his 9 larva appears to correspond with the larvae
before us. I failed to observe this curious sexual difference in
color in the larvae of rubra. Possibly my larvae are all females.
I had forgotten Stretch's observation, so that I did not direct my

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attention to the point until now, when I have only the inflated
larvae. But a portion of the larvae of kasloa are blackish instead
of brown, and these are doubtless the males.

A considerable number of synonymic and varietal names of
rubra and vagans exrst, but, after carefully re-reading the de
scriptions, I do not think that any of them refer to kasloa. But
ler's ivalsinghami comes the nearest. It was described from the
Rogue River, Oregon, from one female specimen. A second
specimen from the same place is referred by Sir G. F. Hampson
apparently as normal rubra, so that it seems certain that ival
singhami is only an unusually red 9 of that species.

Dr. Dyar presented also the following notes :

A LEPIDOPTERON PARASITIC UPON FULGORID^E IN

JAPAN.

(Epipyrops nawai, n. sp.) x
By HARRISON G. DYAR.

Since commenting before the Society upon the species of Epi-
pyrops found in Japan by Mr. Y. Nawa * I have received two
specimens of the moth from that gentleman. The specimens,
females, agree with the figures published in " The Insect World."
The venation is correctly shown, except that the bar between
veins 7 and 8 of hind wings should be continuous. The species
may appropriately be named Epipyrops naiuai, after its dis
coverer. The entire insect is black, the fore wings with many
irregular lines of raised bluish metallic scales. Expanse, 22 mm.

Type. No. 6984, U. S. National Museum.

Specimens were exhibited.

HALESIDOTA MACULATA HARRIS, AND ITS VARIETIES.

By HARRISON G. DYAR.

The past season's collecting has brought to light some new
facts concerning this species. It has been shown that the larva
of the form alni, described from the Sierra Nevada of California,
has red dorsal tufts on a yellow ground when young, replaced
by a uniformly brownish yellow coat when mature, disregarding
the black ends, which are the same in all the forms. This form
occurs in the Kootenay District of British Columbia. I had
supposed that the form would be found throughout the North
west, and, indeed, Sir G. F. Hampson has adopted this con
clusion by making angulifera Walk., described from Vancouver

* Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., v, p. 180, 1903, and Insect World, vn, pi. i, 1903.

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Island, synonymous with alni. However, this is not the case.
Larvae from Victoria, Shawnigan Lake and Wellington, B. C.,
have black dorsal tufts on a yellow field when young, and these
tufts persist in the mature larva, but in a brownish yellow field,
thus showing a form of larva distinct from any previously known
in North America. Walker's name angulifera may be used
for it. The form occurs also on the mainland, at Vancouver,
B. C., according to information furnished by Mr. R. V. Harvey.
Mr. H. S. Barber has collected quite a series of H. maculata
at Eureka, California. Without the larva I am unable to say
whether they should be referred to alni or angulifera. But
aside from this matter there is represented among them a very
curious variety, which I describe as follows :

Halesidota maculata, variety eureka, n. var.

Entirely suffused with brown, all the marks obliterate. Thorax brown,
showing a faint lighter shade on vertex of head, patagia and disk. Fore
wing brown along costa, inner magin, discal dot and a broad shade be
yond it, the rest of the wing lighter yellow brown ; hind wing whitish
yellow. Except for the brown tone, it strongly suggests H. bicolor
Walker {pura Neumoegen).

Three c?d% Eureka, Cal. (H. S. Barber).
Type. No. 6983, U. S. National Museum.

Specimens of moths and larvae were exhibited.

Dr. Dyar showed, also, microscopic slides of the larval and
pupal skins of the mosquitoes Megarhinus rutilus Coquillett
and M. portoricensis Roeder, and commented upon the structure
and systematic position of the larvae. The slides were prepared
by Mr. F. C. Pratt, who had bred the species at Woodstock,
Virginia, the past summer. All the males reared belonged to
rutilus while the females were portoricensis. Dr. Dyar said
that he had examined Mr. Pratt's slides with some care and
could not detect the slightest difference between the skins of M.
portoricensis and M. rutilus. He presented the following de
scription of the larvae :

THE LARVAE OF THE MOSQUITOES MEGARHINUS RUTI
LUS COQUILLETT AND M. PORTORICENSIS RCEDER.

By HARRISON G. DYAR.

The head is rounded, C^/<?#-shaped ; the mouth -brush con
sists of a pencil of stout curved spines, each with a little claw at

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the tip, the bunch folding outward in retraction. The mandibles
bear five large teeth, of which the first, second and fourth are
larger than the third and fifth ; there are a set of fine brushes
just within the labrum and on the maxillae. The antennae are
slender, straight, not very long, uniformly colored brown like
the head. The body hairs all arise from large, chitinous plates.
Those of the thorax are short, thick and finely branched ; of the
abdomen longer, with more delicate branches. The chitinized
part of the air-tube is short, conic, not much longer than wide,
out there is a basal unchitinized portion that does not show on
the slides. The tube is without pecten, but bears two small tufts.
On the sides of the eighth segment are a pair of large, ragged-
edged plates, replacing the comb. The anal segment is ringed,
short, the ventral brush confined to the barred area, the wide
bars containing eyelet holes from which the tufts arise. The
dorsal tuft is small and arises from the upper edge of a rounded,
nearly black plate. The posterior rim of the segment is fringed
with long spines. The larva falls in the synoptic table with
Psorophora, differing from that in the presence of a plate on
the side of the eighth segment instead of a comb of spines.

Mr. Schwarz exhibited a specimen of the Dendrobium
longicorn beetle (Diaxenes dendrobii Gahan). This genus of
Cerambycidae is known to infest, in the larval state, the stems of
various orchid plants which are native to the Philippine Islands
and to British Burmah. Plants infested with these beetles have
of late years been frequently imported into the orchid houses of
Paris and London, and quite a literature has arisen, in the
French and English entomological and horticultural journals, on
the ravages committed by this beetle upon these costly plants.
Mr. Schwarz said that the specimen exhibited was the first one
ever recorded from the United States. The plant in question is
an East Indian species and was imported by Mr. George Field,
a florist of Washington, D. C., by way of London, England.
Since there has been only one specimen of the beetle found,
there seems to be no danger at present that the species is getting
acclimatized in the orchid houses of this country.

In connection with some remarks made by Mr. Doolittle on
the food habits of longicorn beetles, Mr. Schwarz stated that
the imagoes of a conspicuous species common in Texas, Arizona

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and Mexico {Dendrobias quadrimaculatus Dupont), is espe
cially fond of printers' ink and sometimes obliterates the large
letters on the posters of theatrical performances, etc., which are
pasted on walls and fences.

Mr. Schwarz then exhibited male and female specimens of
a remarkable Meloid beetle {Leonina neomexicana Cockerell),
which were found at Denver, Colorado, by Mr. S. Arthur
Johnson in the cells of bees of the genus Anthophora. These
specimens, having been kept in alcohol, are the only well-pre
served examples knownto him ; the type specimen in the Dr.
Horn collection in Philadelphia is dried and pinned, and does not
show any trace of the natural beauty of these insects. At the
same time Mr. Schwarz showed specimens of the other parasitic
Meloid beetle, Hornia minutipennis Riley, found by Mr.
Johnson at the same place and under the same conditions as I^e-
onina. According to Mr. Schwarz's experience, Hornia minu-
tipennis is very widely distributed in the United States. Besides
the type specimen from St. Louis, Missouri, there are specimens
in the National Museum collection from Washington, D. C.,
Helena, Montana, and Alameda, California.

Mr. Heidemann exhibited specimens of Aulacostethus
marmoratus Say, a species belonging to the hemipterous family
Scutelleridae. They were collected recently at Plu miner's Is
land, Maryland, by Mr. August Busck. This is the first record
of this species from the vicinity of Washington, most of the
specimens in collections coming from the pine regions of New
Jersey. A few weeks after Mr. Busck secured his specimens,
Mr. Heidemann visited Plummer's Island himself and captured
further examples of the species from juniper by beating. He
showed, also, for comparison, specimens of Aulacostethus
simulant Uhler, the only other known species of the genus,
taken by Mr. E. A. Schwarz at Key West, Florida. Neither of
the species is common in insect cabinets.

A discussion ensued in regard to the fauna of Plummer's
Island, Maryland. This small island lies in the Potomac river,
some ten miles above Washington, D. C., and on it the Washing
ton Biologists' Field Club has erected a small house. Mr. Schwarz
stated that the entomological members of the club had, during the

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past two years, made an attempt to systematically investigate the
fauna of the island. Lack of time had prevented a thorough investi
gation of the fauna during day time, but a rather thorough collec
tion had been made of insects attracted to light, and some 2,000
or 3,000 species of insects of all orders would be listed from that
particular spot at some future date. The fauna of the island
shows a great difference from that found within the limits of the
District of Columbia proper. Such species as the beetles Calo-
soma and Hydrophilus, the water bug Benacus, the large may
flies which swarm around the electric lights, and numerous other
insects which are common in Washington, do not seem to occur
at Plummer's Island. Mr. Schwarz referred, also, to the re
markable difference in fauna between the southern, dry slope of
the island and the northern, more shady and more humid side.
The fauna of the Virginia shore opposite the island is similar
to that of the northern portion of the island. Mr. Morris and
Mr. Waite said that Mr. Schwarz's views as to the difference in
fauna in that region are borne out by a study of the -flora. Mr.
Schwarz remarked, also, on the difference in time of appearance
of a number of species at Plummer's Island from that on the
lower Potomac in the vicinity of Washington. This was especi
ally exemplified in the case of the may-beetles {Lachnosterna),
concerning which careful records had been published by Dr.
John B. Smith in his well known papers on the Lachnosterna
fauna of Washington, D. C. The insects at Plummer's Island
seem to come out one or two weeks later in the season than at
Washington.

Mr. Banks reported that he had taken the Chrysopid Mele-
oma signoretti Fitch at Plummer's Island the past season. This
was the first record for the species so far south. It was origi
nally described from the Green Mountains of Vermont and had,
since then, been recorded from Mt. Washington and Frariconia,
New Hampshire, and Sea Cliff, New York.

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Mr. Currie presented the following paper :

AN INSECT-COLLECTING TRIP TO BRITISH COLUMBIA.
By ROI.LA P. CURRIE.

During the past summer I was enabled, through the kindness
of Dr. H. G. Dyar, leave of absence having been granted me by
the U. S. National Museum, to spend about ten weeks, in com
pany with Dr. Dyar and Mr. A. N. Caudell, in an investigation
of the insect fauna of the Kootenay District of British Columbia.
Our headquarters during this time was the town of Kaslo, situ
ated towards the northern end and on the western shore of
Kootenay Lake. Dr. Dyar was the first to arrive on the ground,
reaching Kaslo on the z8th of May, while the writer arrived on
the 8th of June, and Mr. Caudell on the i5th.

Although occupied principally with collecting and rearing
Lepidoptera and mosquitoes, Dr. Dyar nevertheless found time
to secure many other insects of various orders. Mr. Caudell did
a good share of the collecting although the work of inflating
lepidopterous larvae, which fell to his lot, frequently monopolized
his time. The writer, therefore, was the only member of the
party who was able to devote himself exclusively to general col
lecting.

We are much indebted to Mr. J. Win. Cockle, part proprietor
of the Kaslo Hotel and a pioneer in British Columbia, for what
success we achieved on the trip. Mr. Cockle is an enthusiastic
student and collector of Lepidoptera, and possesses a large and
handsome collection of the species occurring in eastern British
Columbia. He often accompanied us on our trips and planned
several special excursions to interesting localities for our benefit.
His thorough knowledge of the region was of great help to us
and his interest in our expedition, as manifested not only by do
nations of specimens but in many other ways, added much to the
pleasure of our stay.

I desire to express our thanks to Mr. W. R. Allen, Secretary
of the Kaslo & Slocan Railway, for many kindnesses. Mr.
Allen at one time made a collection of British Columbia Lepi
doptera and presented it to the University of Oxford. Although
not actively engaged in collecting at the time of our visit, he
nevertheless secured a number of specimens for us, and we cap
tured many good moths in front of the photographic laboratory
in his garden, at the electric light which he obligingly left burn
ing for us. He accompanied us on one of our trips and has had
printed for us a fine set of his photographs of local scenery. He

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also arranged a hand-car trip from Payne Mine to Kaslo for our
benefit.

Among the many other persons who helped us by bringing in
specimens which came to their notice I would mention in partic
ular Master Stephenson, younger son of the Kaslo druggist, who
developed into an enthusiastic collector and devoted considerable
time to getting insects for us.

As a result of the summer's work between 38,000 and 39,000
insects, spiders and myriapods were brought back. It seems de
sirable, therefore, as a preface to Dr. Dyar's paper on British
Columbia mosquitoes and to other papers which, it is hoped,
will appear from time to time upon different groups of insects
contained in the collection, to give this brief account of the trip,
together with short descriptions of the localities visited. Prof.
C. V. Piper, former Entomologist of the Washington Agricul
tural College Experiment Station, has kindly furnished me with
the scientific names of the trees, shrubs, and other plants men
tioned in this article.

Kootenay Lake is located in the Selkirk Mountains in eastern
British Columbia and is some eighty miles long by from one to
five miles wide. Its water is very cold and up to a short dis
tance from the shore is said to have a uniform depth of 400 feet.
The water this year (1903) reached a height of twenty-four feet
above low-water mark in the early summer and was still some
what higher than normal when I left. The mountains rise di
rectly from the shores of the lake to an altitude of 10,000 feet or
less. Their summits are usually bare and rocky and, in many
cases, have snow on their slopes throughout the summer. The
climate is less severe in winter than in the Rocky Mountains,
although colder than on the Pacific Coast. Although there is
much snow during the late fall, winter and early spring months,
the large lakes do not freeze over, but are open for navigation the
entire year. Usually the rainfall is light in summer and there
are many forest fires ; but last summer it rained so frequently as
to interfere considerably with our collecting.

The forests in this region are notable on account of the large
size and luxuriant growth of the trees smaller than those of the
Pacific Coast, but considerably larger than those in the Rocky
Mountains. Giant cedar ( Thuya plicata) and hemlock ( Tsuga
heterophylla} seem to predominate in the lower altitudes, al
though interspersed with Western larch (Larix occidentalis],
yellow pine (Pinus ponderosa} and Douglas and Engelmann
spruces (Pseudotsuga mucronata and Picea englemanni}.
Higher up subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa} and spruce are the
prevailing trees. In the clearings and along the creeks are balm

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of Gilead * and aspen poplars (Popuhts trichocarpa and P.
tremuloides}, willow, birch (Bctula papyrifera} , alder (Al-
nus tenuifolia) , ceanothus ( Ceanothus velutinus}, etc. Thim-
bleberry (Rubtts nutkanus), raspberry (Rubus strzgosus},
gooseberry (Ribcs irriguum}, service-berry \Amelanchier
Jloridd) and huckleberry ( Vaccinitim membranaceum} are com
mon shrubs, while among the most abundant flowering plants
are Epilobium spicatum, Spircea corymbosa, a species of
Hieraceum and Anaphalis margaritacea. Between the upper
portion of the thickly timbered area and the rocky peaks of the
mountain summits there is usually a considerable area with scant
and stunted trees, or no trees at all, the ground covered with
sedge, heather (Phyllodoce empetriformis and Cassiope mer-
tensiana) and a variety of boreal or subarctic flowering plants.

Following is a list of the localities where collections were
made. Whenever possible the exact or approximate altitude is
given.

Kaslo (altitude 1,670 feet), May 29 to August 20. As
stated above, this town, located on Kootenay Lake, was our
headquarters, and the great majority of our specimens were ob
tained within easy walking or rowing distance of there. The
town is built upon the south side of a small bay and is bounded
on the south by Kaslo Creek at the time of our arrival a large
and powerful mountain torrent though diminishing greatly in
volume later in the season. At no place did collecting give bet
ter results than here. The creek harbored a variety of neurop-
teroid and other aquatic Iarva3, while the deciduous trees which
lined its banks were the resting places of many stoneflies, cad-
disflies and the like. From the many young trees springing up
in the clearings back of the town and in those places which had,
a few years back, been visited by forest fires, a variety of wood-
inhabiting Coleoptera were beaten, together with parasitic Hy-
menoptera, Chrysopidas, Hemerobiidae and Raphidiidae, small
Diptera, Homoptera and Heteroptera, and innumerable spiders.
The thimbleberry and other bushes made excellent sweeping for
small Hymenoptera ; the clover patches, on sunny days, were
alive with various kinds of bees ; and the grass and weeds of
pastures and vacant lots'yielded an embarrassing number of vari
ous small Diptera. Butterflies and moths of many kinds were
abundant, especially in the clearings and more open forest and
along the roadsides, while many of the night-flying moths
could be detected and put to flight by thrashing the underbrush,
shrubs and young trees with a stout stick or pole. Caddisworms,
mosquito larvag, aquatic Coleoptera and Hemiptera, etc., were

*The balm of Gilead poplar is called " cottonwood " in the Northwest.

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found in abundance in the spring-fed pools and marshy forest
ponds, and adults of these insects could, of course, be found in
the neighborhood.

Although sugaring for moths was tried at other localities,
Kaslo was the only place where our efforts met with marked
success. We began sugaring about the middle of June and in
that month sugared three times, according to my record. Dur
ing the first half of July we went out about three times a week
and during the remainder of July and in August sugared almost
every evening when not prevented by rain. During the early
part of summer, moths were not particularly abundant at sugar,
and 100 or 200 specimens an evening was considered a fair
catch. But later in the season the number of moths steadily in
creased and during August, up to the time we left, 1,000 or 2,000
specimens could easily be taken almost every evening. On one
occasion we even exceeded that number and secured 2,330.
Species as well as numbers of individuals were well represented,
75 species a night being the usual average in the latter part of
the collecting. Although there were naturally long series of
some species, vet of not many did we secure a larger number of
specimens than we had use for.

Our method of procedure, though probably not essentially
different from that of others who sugar for moths, was as follows :
About 7 o'clock or 7.30 in the evening we went over the route
and put on the " sugar," which, according to Mr. Cockle's for
mula, was made by heating a mixture of three pounds of sugar
and one pound of molasses until thoroughly dissolved, then
thinning with beer until of a syrupy consistence and adding a
small glass of rum. This was spread, by means of a good-sized
whitewash brush, upon stumps, fence boards and palings, tele
graph poles, etc., along certain roads and paths back of Kaslo,
usually along a circuitous route which brought us back to the
starting point without going twice over the same ground. About
9.30 we started out again, equipped with a lantern, several large
and small cyanide jars of good strength, a few vials of alcohol
and two large muslin sacks one of which contained i ^o or 200
empty paper pill boxes. The moths were caught on the sugar
by clapping the cyanide jar over them and, when partially over
come by the fumes, they were removed to pill boxes, each moth
being put, when possible, in a separate box.* Each pill box, as
it was filled, was then transferred to the empty muslin sack.
Next morning the boxes were opened, male moths removed to
cyanide bottles and the females confined in glass jars in order, if
possible, to secure eggs from them for life history studies.

* The Microlepidoptera were not kept alive, but were collected directly
into chloroform killing vials and left there till our return to the hotel.

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After the first of August we discarded the pill boxes, as it was
deemed now too late in the season to start new life-history cul
tures, and Dr. Dyar was sufficiently occupied with caring for those
already obtained. It was noticed that many moths fell from the
sugar into the grass and onto the ground and were lost while we
were engaged in collecting the others. Mr. Caudell, however,
soon contrived a way to prevent this. A semicircle of springy
wire was sewed to the top of a cloth funnel about one foot in
diameter the bottom of which, furnished with a strong elastic,
fitted tightly around the mouth of a large cyanide jar of extra
strength. On approaching a sugared tree, pole or stump the un-
wired side of the funnel was made to fit closely around it just be
low the lower moths. A little jarring and blowing, or a light
brushing with the fingers would precipitate them all into the fun
nel and down into the cyanide jar below. The jar was then
corked, and as soon as the moths became quiet they were trans
ferred to a storage cyanide jar and packed lightly between layers
of cotton. A canvas apron with a number of pockets, devised
by Mr. Caudell, served admirably the purpose of carrying a con
venient number of cyanide jars so as to be immediately available.
On the warmer evenings when there was considerable moisture
in the air there seemed to be a greater flight of moths than when
it was cold and dry ; and in moist weather we noticed that it was
unnecessary to put on fresh sugar every evening, for just as many,
or even more, moths were captured when the sugar was a day,
or even two days, old.

Moths were by no means the only insects attracted to the sugar.
Aspec\esoiCeutop/u7us was frequently taken, and daddy-long-legs
(Phalangidea) were attracted in some numbers. One species
of Chrysopa was often taken at the sugar, as also a few small
caddisflies and some specimens of a longicorn beetle, Pachyta
spurca LeConte. Some of our sugared stumps became so thickly
infested with ants that other insects would not alight on them.
We noticed, also, in several places where a stump was sugared
but a few inches above the ground, that a large toad or a tree
frog was nearly always stationed at its base to capture the moths
which alighted within its reach. One especial stump seemed to
be a favorite, for as many as four toads were sometimes noticed
beside it.

As the nights were nearly always cool there was never any such
flight of moths to light as we are accustomed to in more southern
localities around Washington, D. C., for instance ; but a small
number could be secured by going the rounds of the electric
lights in Kaslo and visiting the electric-light plant at the creek.
The Bombycoid moths, which are not attracted to sugar, were
mostly taken at light. Toward the close of the season we rigged

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up a large white sheet in what appeared to be a favorable local
ity and placed a good lantern and reflector behind it ; but this ap
paratus was so little of a success in attracting moths that we
abandoned it after a few trials.

Besides the localities immediately around Kaslo, specimens ob
tained from several near-by places on or near Kootenay Lake
bear Kaslo labels. One of these we allude to in our notes as
" Lily pad Lake" and some of our captures have this additional
label. It is a small marshy pond, filled with water lillies and
other aquatic plants, about a mile and a half south of Kaslo on
the road leading to Mirror Lake. This was a favorite locality
for collecting mosquitoes and caddisflies, in their different stages,
and seemed to be the nearest place to Kaslo where dragonflies
bred in any numbers. The shores of the "lake" were covered
with a dense growth of trees and shrubs, and about the only way
to secure dragonflies was by walking out over the water on some
prostrate log and waiting for them to come within reach, taking
care to avoid losing one's balance when making a pass at them.
Mirror Lake, three miles south of Kaslo, is considerably larger
than Lilypad Lake and less overgrown with aquatic plants. It
is joined to Kootenay Lake by a covered ditch and is but a few
steps distant. In winter enough ice is harvested from it to sup
ply the country near by. This proved an excellent collecting
ground for dragonflies, mayflies and caddisflies, and on the moist
shores Saldid bugs were abundant. Many of the caddisflies were
discovered by jarring the branches of the trees near the lake, thus
putting them to flight and making their capture possible. Some
of the specimens bear Mirror Lake labels in addition to Kaslo
labels. Fletcher's Ranch, about five miles south of Kaslo and
at some elevation above the lake, was visited by Dr. Dyar, Mr.
Cockle and myself on June 1 1 . The place was reached by tak
ing a rowboat to a point some distance south of Mirror Lake, and
then following a road up the mountain for a short way. Here
a mountain meadow and pasture, covered in some places by a
few inches of water, made a good collecting ground for dragon-
flies and a variety of other insects. The mouth of Cooper Creek,
about three miles north of Kaslo on the opposite side of the lake,
was several times visited. Beating was good here, and on one
occasion, during June when the water in the creek was high, -I
collected a number of Carabid beetles, centipedes, spiders, etc.,
in the drift brought down by the creek. Powder Creek, oppo
site and a little south of Kaslo on the east side of the lake, has,
near its mouth, a beautiful waterfall some forty feet in height.
The creek proved a good collecting ground for caddisflies and
stoneflies, and was the only locality near Kaslo where I found
ant-lions, several pits being discovered in the sand.

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Kaslo Creek, June 18 and jo. On these dates Mr. Caudell
and I made trips by the Kaslo & Slocan Railway to points re
spectively sixteen and ten miles west of Kaslo. Specimens col
lected at these points bear the label "Kaslo Creek" for want of
a more definite locality. The railroad follows up the creek
which, in many places, is lined with pools of standing water af
fording an abundance of Culicid and caddisfly larvae and other
aquatic insects. On these trips we secured specimens of the
enormous predaceous Culicid larva Eucorethra zinderivoodi Un
derwood. At the time we thought they were something new, but
on returning to Kaslo found that Dr. Dyar had taken smaller
specimens of the same larva near Kaslo some time before and
had them in a breeding jar in the hotel. The rank growth of
grass and weeds made good sweeping, and we obtained a num
ber of the delicate little mayflies which were hovering in undu
lating swarms above the railroad track. On June 30, at the ten-
mile locality, I secured a specimen of the rare and interesting
aquatic beetle Amphizoa among drift wood in the creek. On
returning from one of these trips we discovered that holding a
net out of the window of the moving train was an easy and pro
fitable method of sweeping.

Lardo {altitude i,6jO feet}, July 7- This town is situated
at the north end of Kootenay Lake about twenty miles from
Kaslo. Dr. Dyar visited the place on the afternoon of July 7
and secured a few insects.

Antoine Mine, McGuigan {altitude about 10,000 feet}.
This mine 1 is located in what is known as the McGuigan Basin,
in the mountains south of McGuigan a station on the Kaslo &
Slocan Railway about twenty-five miles west of Kaslo. Mr.
Cockle had planned an excursion to this locality for August, but
rainy weather necessitated giving it up. Nevertheless, Mr. An
derson of the Antoine Mine, who had kindly invited us to come
there, collected a few specimens for us.

Frye Creek {altitude 1 ,6jO feet}, July 23 . The mouth of
this creek, about nine miles north of Kaslo on the east side of
the lake, is a favorite camping and picnic ground, and we took
advantage of a Sunday-school excursion to visit the place. There
is quite a stretch of sandy beach here and huckleberries are plen-
ti-ful hence its popularity. The scenery in Frye Creek canyon
is very wild and beautiful. An excellent trail has been con
structed through it' for several miles giving a good opportunity of
viewing its beauties and collecting insects. The collecting at
this place pleased Mr. Caudell so well that he wandered far up
the canyon, and when the excursion steamboat was ready to re
turn to Kaslo he was nowhere to be found. After a half hour's
waiting we were rewarded by seeing him saunter up serene and

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smiling, in entire ignorance of the anxiety of his friends and the
impatience to get home of those who knew not the fascinations of
" bug hunting."

Ainsworth, July 10 and n. This is a small mining town on
the western shore of Kootenay Lake about twelve miles south of
Kaslo. In the mountains back of the town which rise abruptly
from the lake about three miles distant by wagon road and at
an elevation of about 5.000 feet, is an interesting limestone cave,
known as Cody's Cave. As this cave is located in a good col
lecting region Mr. Cockle planned a trip there, and on the morn
ing of July 10 Dr. Dyar, Mr. Caudell, Messrs. Kane and Lucas
of Kaslo, and myself accompanied him by steamer to Ainsworth.
Here the Presbyterian minister, Mr. G. H. Findley, who was
much interested in the cave and thoroughly familiar with it, vol
unteered to act as our guide. We found collecting good all
along the road on the way up and secured quite a number of
specimens at altitudes between 2,500 and 5,000 feet. About
eleven o'clock we stopped by the side of a small creek for lunch.
While here we made a short search for aquatic insects and on
turning over small stones in the water found a number of may
fly and stonefly nymphs and cadclisfly larvae and a few specimens
of the peculiar dipterous larvae of the family Blepharoceridae.
After lunch we left the road, and a steep climb of a half mile
over rocks and fallen timber brought us to the mouth of the cave.

The cave is of considerable size and some time was spent in
exploring it. A small, shallow stream of icy cold water flows
through it, in some places almost covering the floor. The sta
lagmites and stalactites were, in most places, small and few in
number, indicating, it would seem, that the cave is of compara
tively recent origin. In some places the walls of the cave were
of considerable height, but in others we were obliged to crawl
prostrate in order to get through. Mr. Kane took several flash
light photographs which give an excellent idea of its appearance.
The cave seemed to contain no animal life of any kind. This
was a disappointment to us, for had it been inhabited by bats or
other animals the presence of insects might have been confidently
looked for. It was so cold and wet, however, as to be manifesly
unfitted for animal life. I examined the limestone mud, delved
into out-of-the-way corners and overturned stones in the stream,
but found no trace of insects.

After leaving the cave the party, with the exception of Mr.
Caudell and myself, returned to Ainsworth and Kaslo, while we
went back to the road and followed it a mile and a half further
to the No. T Mine. Here we were most hospitably entertained
by the mine superintendent and his two assistants. The next
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ing as we went. We lunched at the same place as the day be
fore and spent some time sweeping the banks of the creek for
neuropteroid insects, hymenopterous parasites, etc., and exam
ined the bed of the stream for aquatic larvae. Here Mr. Caudell
secured a specimen of the water beetle .Amphizoa and some
more Blepharocerid larvae similar to those I found the day before.
About a mile above Ainsvvorth and near the road is a long pond
of several acres area called Loon Lake. Here were captured a
number of dragonflies, representing several species. We reached
Ainsworth late in the afternoon and returned to Kaslo in the
evening.

Bear Lake {altitude J ,800 feet) , July 20 and 29. A sta
tion on the Kaslo & Slocan Railway twenty miles west of Kaslo.
Here are two small mountain lakes from the smallest of which,
Fish Lake, Kaslo Creek takes its origin. The other lake, known
as Bear Lake, is just west of Fish Lake. Mr. Caudell and I
visited this locality on July 20 in company with Mr. Cockle, and
spent the afternoon collecting near the two lakes and along the
railroad track. Butterflies and bees were found around the
flowering plants, and the grass, weeds, small trees and bushes
yielded a large number and variety of insects from sweeping.
Neuropteroid insects were particularly abundant, especially cad-
disflies, mayflies and Chrysopidse, and this was the only locality
where we caught Sialis. We spent the night here and next
morning climbed the mountain north of Bear Lake by switch
back trail to London Hill Mine at the summit. On a subsequent
trip (July 29), Mr. Caudell and I sugared for moths along the
railroad between Fish and Bear Lakes and secured about 100
specimens. Two-thirds of these belonged to a single species
{Noctua sierrce Harvey), not uncommon at Kaslo. Hardly any
of these moths were peculiar to the locality, but were the same
species we had collected at Kaslo earlier in the season.

London Hill Mine, Bear Lake {altitude 7,000 feet}, July
21, 28 and 20. As stated in the last paragraph, Mr. Cockle,
Mr. Caudell and I climbed the mountain north of Bear Lake on
the morning of July 21 and, as the day was warm and sunny,
spent a few hours collecting at the summit near the abandoned
London Hill Mine. The forests on the mountains about Bear
Lake have been completely destroyed by fires and only the
charred and dead tree trunks remain standing. There was little
collecting, therefore, on the way up. Around the summit the
trees are stunted, grow in isolated and straggling patches, and
have not been reached by the fire. These afforded very fair beat
ing and sweeping, and the many blossoms covering the treeless
areas attracted a variety of bees, flies and alpine Lepidoptera.
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Syrphid flies was hovering, and a number of them were secured.
On the patches of still unmelted snow were a large number of
miscellaneous insects, most of them crawling actively about
though many others were dead or benumbed with cold. Among
these snow insects Coleoptera and parasitic Hymenoptera seemed
most abundant, although the orders Hemiptera, Orthoptera and
Diptera were also represented. In the afternoon we returned to
Bear Lake and took the train for Kaslo.

On July 28, Mr. Caudell and I revisited London Hill Mine in
company with Dr. Dyar, this time climbing the mountain on
horseback so as to have more energy for collecting when we
reached the summit. Threatening showers made collecting
rather poor and few Lepidoptera were flying, though we secured
a Parnassius and a few moths. From the snow patches, which
had shrunken considerably since our former visit, we collected a
number of insects the majority of which, however, were evidently
the same species we secured there before. At the Silver Glance
Mine, a short distance below the summit, we spent the night and
experienced the customary hearty western hospitality. We tried
sugaring that evening, along the trail leading up from the camp,
but with no success whatever. The only creatures found at the
sugar were a crane fly, a slug and a mouse. Two moths, how
ever, flew to the lantern just as I was entering the cabin, a Geo-
metrid and a specimen of the common Noctuid Feltia Vancou
ver ensis Grote.

In the morning we went again to the summit, but as the sky
was overcast butterfly collecting was poor, and about noon Dr.
Dyar went down to Bear Lake and returned to Kaslo. I spent
the forenoon in beating the firs and pines and took quite a
number of small Diptera and parasitic Hymenoptera, some small
stoneflies, a Coniopterygicl, two Scolytid beetles, a few longi-
corns, etc. We again examined the snow patches and found a
good variety of insects, among them a caddisfly and a small
Hemerobiid. Early in the afternoon the sun came out and we
were rewarded by securing a number of Lepidoptera and many
flies and bees from the flower-covered slopes. We walked down
to Bear Lake in the afternoon, sugared there in the evening and
returned to Kaslo next day.

South Fork, August 9. About five miles from Kaslo, on the
Kaslo & Slocan Railway, at the point where the two branches
of Kaslo Creek come together, is a station known as South Fork.
The branch which has its source in Fish Lake and which is fol
lowed by the railroad is called Kaslo Creek, while the other,
coming from the south, is known as South Fork. On our way to
the Kitchener Glacier, August 9, we left the railroad at South
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mainder of the journey. While waiting here for the horses to be
saddled and packs adjusted a few miscellaneous insects were
picked up.

South Fork Creek, August 9 and u. Along this creek
there is a good wagon road with trails branching off here and
there to a number of mines. Dr. Dyar, Mr. Cockle, Mr. Cau-
dell, Mr. Allen, our guide Joe and myself left South Fork sta
tion during the forenoon of August 9 on our way to the Kitch
ener Glacier. Specimens picked up along this road, going to
and returning from the glacier, bear the label "South Fork
Creek." The road leads through a forest of large cedars and
hemlocks, replaced, as higher altitudes are reached, by spruces
and firs. A water-covered meadow near the creek, visited
on the return trip (August n), proved to be an excellent place
for collecting mosquitoes and a large number of mayfly nymphs
were dredged from the water.

Kokanee Mountain (altitude, at foot of Kitchener Glacier,
7,500 to 8,OOO feet), August 10 and n . After following the
South Fork Creek wagon road for a distance of about seventeen
miles from South Fork we turned off to the left and climbed Ko
kanee Mountain by a switchback trail. Below the peaks of the
mountain is a good sized glacier, known as Kitchener Glacier,
from which several creeks take their rise, South Fork Creek
among them. Below the glacier and at the head of South Fork
Creek are two small lakes, one just above the other. At each
lake is a mining camp, neither of which were occupied by human
beings at the time of our visit, although a porcupine had posses
sion of the camp by the lower lake. We went on to Mansfield
Camp, on the upper lake, and made this our stopping place.
The cabin stands close beside the lake, and straight across, over
hanging the opposite bank, was a wall of glacial ice.

Next morning, August 10, the day was mostly clear and pleas
ant and we arose early. After donning smoked glasses and
waterproof footwear we went on up the mountain and out upon
the glacier. On the snow, which largely covered the glacier,
were quite a number and variety of insects, many of them dead
but a good number alive and uninjured. Mr. Allen took several
photographs and Mr. Caudell and I, after exploring the lower
end of that part of the glacier which gives rise to Coffee Creek,
climbed to the summit of the highest peak of the mountain said
to be the tallest peak in this entire region. It took us about an
hour and a half to make the ascent over the snow-covered ice,
and we had to use care to avoid the crevasses.

The extreme peak projects above the snow and ice and is a
mere mass of large loose rocks, having only a few yards area on
top. The view was magnificent. Upon the opposite side to

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that by which we made the ascent is an almost precipitous fall of
several hundred feet, and far below could be seen small lakes and
winding creeks while on all sides the eye overlooked the tops of
a wilderness of mountain peaks. The only insects seen here were
a few Diptera. We remained awhile to rest and, if possible, to
fix in our mind's eye the awe-inspiring picture before us, then re
turned to camp, collecting on the way. Mr. Caudell secured one
specimen of the grasshopper Podisma polita Scudder, a species
recorded only from Oregon in Scudder's Catalogue of Orthop-
tera. The others were back from another part of the mountain
and reported that collecting was somewhat disappointing and
butterflies not as abundant as was expected.

After supper we sugared along the trail from our camp to the
camp on the lower lake. About dusk we noticed a few moths
flying but on going the rounds later we had almost as little suc
cess as on Bear Lake Mountain, the only insects found on the
sugar being a few craneflies and one or two caddisflies no moths
whatever. From these two experiences in sugaring at high alti
tudes we reached the conclusion that in such localities, where
the nights are naturally cold, moths cannot be captured by this
method of collecting. On our way back to camp Mr. Caudell shot
a porcupine. Next morning as it was cloudy and threatened rain
we concluded not to remain another day, so packed up our outfit
and returned to Kaslo. On the way down the mountain Mr.
Allen secured a photograph of the beautiful cascades by which
South Fork Creek descends to the valley.

Sandon (altitude 3,800 feet}, August ij. This mining
town, about thirty miles from Kaslo, is the western terminus of
the Kaslo & Slocan Railway. I left Kaslo on the morning of
August 13 on my way home, taking the train to Sandon where I
spent the afternoon and night, leaving the next morning for
Nakusp. During the afternoon I collected some bees and other
Hymenoptera and visited the Slocan Star Mine, said to be one
of the best dividend-paying silver mines in this region. Mr.
Oscar White, brother of the mine superintendent, showed me
through a good part of it, and explained everything to me most
interestingly. In the evening I made the rounds of the electric
lights and secured about 90 moths, representing a good variety
of species. Mr. Geo. C. Robbins, an employee of the Payne
Mine, went around with me, provided me with extra cyanide jars
and helped me in catching the specimens. Since my return to
Washington he has sent us some additional specimens.

Revelstoke (altitude 1,475 feet}, August 14. As stated
above, I left Sandon on the morning of the I4th for Nakusp on
the Upper Arrow Lake, where I took steamer northward to Ar
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way between Arrowhead and Revelstoke, I captured a few mos
quitoes which entered the car. A few moths and other insects
were taken that evening at the electric lights on the balcony of
the C. P. R. Hotel at Revelstoke.

The following morning (August 15) I took the transcontinental
eastbound Canadian Pacific train, and thus ended my own col
lecting so far as British Columbia was concerned. Sunday was
spent at Banff, in Alberta, the main station of the beautiful
Rocky Mountain Park of Canada, and here I picked up a few
insects while out walking. The scenery around Banff reminded
me of parts of the Yellowstone Park. Here I met Mr. N. B.
Sanson, who is Curator of the Park Museum, and had a most
pleasant visit with him.

Dr. Dyar and Mr. Caudell left Kaslo on August 20. They
took the lake steamer to Nelson at the foot of the lake ; Mr. Cau
dell going east from that point and leaving British Columbia by
the Crow's Nest Pass branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway
and securing a few specimens at Nelson and Kootenay Landing.

Dr. Dyar has given me the following account of the remainder
of his trip. He went from Nelson to Revelstoke by the Arrow
Lakes steamer, collecting a few specimens at Nelson, West Rob-
son, Nakusp and Revelstoke. Thence he went west on the
main line of the C. P. R., reaching Vancouver August 23. He
left the next day and crossed the water to Victoria on Vancouver
Island. Five days were spent here doing a little collecting and
visiting several resident entomologists. Mr. A. W. Hanham,
Mr. E. M. Anderson and Mr. E. Baynes Reed were met and
several pleasant hours spent with them. From Victoria, on the
way to Wellington, Dr. Dyar visited Shawnigan Lake, a station
on the Esquimault & Nanaimo Railway. At Wellington, at the
end of the railroad, he was entertained by Rev. G. W. Taylor,
whose studies of North American Geometridae are just taking
definite shape. Mr. Theo. Bryant was also met here. Dr. Dyar
returned to Victoria on September 5, and went back to the main
land the same night. At Vancouver he visited Mr. R. V. Har
vey and Mr. A. H. Bush, resident collectors. The same day he
started for home by the main line of the C. P. R. On Septem
ber 7 a stop was made at Glacier in the Selkirk Range, and on
September 8 another at Field. A number of moths were picked
up at both places although the weather was stormy and cold. On
September 10 and n a short stop was made at Banff, Alberta,
but it was snowing heavily over all the mountain peaks and rain
ing in the town, so practically no insect life was seen.

The material collected on the trip is now in the U. S. National
Museum, together with about 500 specimens of Lepidoptera
which were given Dr. Dyar for the National Museum by the en-

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tomologists who were visited. Rev. G. W. Taylor, especially,
gave valuable material, not sparing species that were uniques in
his collection.

The paper was illustrated by maps and photographs.
Dr. Dyar then read the following paper :

NOTES ON THE MOSQUITOES OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.
By HARRISON G. DYAR.

In conjunction with some other work, I made observations on
the mosquitoes of British Columbia, Canada, particularly in th.e
Kootenay District, during the past season. This was done in
connection with the mosquito work which is being promoted by
Dr. Howard, with the help of the Carnegie Institution.

British Columbia is a mountainous region in general, with a
fairly abundant rainfall. Nevertheless, towards the middle of
summer it becomes generally dry and most natural breeding
places for mosquitoes disappear. The mosquitoes, therefore,
come early and are soon gone, and are, in the main, composed
of those species which develop rapidly and hibernate in the egg
state. Culex pipiens was not seen anywhere in British Colum
bia, nor was any species of Anopheles met with except in a
single instance. The place of C. pipiens in rain barrels and
other stagnant water is taken by C. incidens.

I will mention the species in the order of their comparative
abundance. I desire to express my thanks to Mr. Caudell and
Mr. Currie for the kind assistance which they rendered me. I
am indebted to Mr. Coquillett for patiently examining my 1,238
specimens.

Culex impiger Walker.*

This was by far the commonest mosquito. Early pools in the
mountains, rilled by the drainage from the melting snow banks,
contained the larvae and pupae, apparently by the million. Near
Kootenay Lake they had all gone in May ; but higher in the hills
larvae could still be found till the middle of June, and at Kokanee
Mountain, at the foot of the glacier, I found many larvae on Au
gust 10. The adults soon became very common in the woods,
though in a few weeks they were much worn and later disap-

* This is the C. reptans of my previous papers. Mr. Coquillett will
give the differentiation of impiger and reptans in the new edition of Dr.
Howard's " Mosquitoes."

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peared, except in the high damp valleys where they persisted
longer. Eggs were obtained of the usual spindle shape but
shorter and thicker than those of C '. cantans. They were laid
singly and hibernated. The larva closely resembles that of C.
canadensis, with which it sometimes occurred mixed. It may
be distinguished by the larger and coarser ventral brush of the
anal segment, composed of longer stemmed tufts and by most of
the chitinized parts being black instead of brown.

Culex cantans Meigen.

These mosquitoes became common in the woods in July,
gradually disappearing soon after. Eggs were obtained from
captured females, laid singly and of the usual elongate fusiform
shape, but they all hibernated, none having hatched at the time
of writing. Mr. O. A. Johannsen has described the larva. It
falls in the synoptic table in the long-tubed group with C. res-
tuans, quite an unexpected association, since its other charac
ters are those of the short-tubed larvaB.

Culex reptans Meigen.

This species appeared rather late in the season, no examples
being seen till the end of June, after which it became fairly
abundant. The flies were persistent in their attacks, alighting
and biting at once, without the preliminary deliberations seen in
other species of Culex. This is the summer mosquito of the
Kootenays and lasted longer than any other of the single-brooded
species. Eggs were obtained of the usual spindle shape, rather
thick and unusually small, laid singly. They have hibernated.
The larva was not seen.

Culex canadensis Theobald.

This mosquito was not rare early in the season, but soon dis
appeared. The larvae bred in the early pools left by the melting
snows, but apparently made no attempt to continue breeding
later in the season, as I observed to be the case in New Hamp
shire. In fact there was no suitable water left for them, and the
eggs must all hibernate, making the species single brooded.

Culex incidens Thomson.

This species was at no time abundant, though occasional speci
mens were met with all the season from May to September. The
species breeds continuously, the larvae hatching from floating
boat-shaped masses of eggs as with C. pipiens. They could be
found at any time in every old water barrel, pump tub, or dug
out spring hole. Also in holes formed by overturned tree-stumps
in swampy land, though nature seemed to furnish surprisingly
few breeding places for the larvae. If it were worth while, this

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species could be easily greatly reduced in numbers by treating the
artificial breeding places. The larvae closely resemble the mature
larva which I have figured as C. consobrinus from specimens
sent me by Messrs. Dupree and Morgan. They are generally
darker, the chitinized parts being usually black, though some
occur of a lighter tint, and these I am at present unable to dis
tinguish from C. consobrinus by any character whatever.* I bred
adults from larvae found in a fresh-water pool near the sea at
Victoria and in a rain-water barrel at Wellington, B. C. Also
from pools impregnated with hydrogen sulphide at Banff, Al
berta.

Culex punctor Kirby.

This was one of the very early species. A single larva and
several pupae were taken in a pool full of algae behind a stump in
a boggy part of the woods on May 31. The adults were flying
at the same time, with the early C. incidens, but they disap
peared soon. The eggs are spindle shaped, unusually thick and
short, diamond-shaped and rather large. They were laid singly
and hibernated. The larva falls in the table with C. sollicitans,
but is differentiated by having the lateral comb of the 8th segment
composed of four or five large thorn-shaped teeth instead of a
small patch. It is very close to Culex serratus as recently de
scribed by Smith, f

Culex sylvestris Theobald.

The adults occurred in July in small numbers, mixed with C.
cantans. No new facts were learned about the life history.

Culex varipalpus Coquillett.

A few adults were taken at altitudes higher than Kootenay
Lake. They were fairly common on the summit of a mountain
near Bear Lake at an altitude of 7,000 feet, but only a single
specimen was taken anywhere else. I owe the discovery of the
larva to Mr. J. W. Cockle, who was on the lookout for new
wrigglers for me. Mr. Cockle found some larvae in a pool,
mainly C. incidens as we learned afterward, and, having no
bottle with him, entered an abandoned Chinaman's shack for a
vessel in which to bring the larvae home. There he saw many
small wrigglers in an old dirty tin pan which had been filled with
water from rain coming through a hole in the roof. With com
mendable discrimination, he left the incidens larvae and brought

* The young stages of C. consobrinus as sent me are quite unlike the
corresponding stages of C. incidens. But I have not yet bred C. conso
brinus myself and still feel some doubt about it.

* Ent. News, xiv, p. 309, 1903.

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home those from the shack. They proved to be a pure culture
of C. varipalpus.

The larva most nearly resembles that of C. atropalpus, being
furnished with long anal appendages and a short breathing tube,
while they wriggle slowly at the bottom of their dish, not coining
to the surface for a long time. They differ from C. atropalpus
in that the ventral brush of the last segment is a sessile tuft of
hairs like the dorsal one, without barred area. The general
habitus of the larva suggests Wyeomyia smithii.

Culex territans Walker.

The larvas were found in permanent pools by the edge of a
small lake, showing the normal appearance and habits. The
adults made no attempt to bite. Mr. Currie went down to the
edge of the lake and secured several by sweeping, but otherwise
all those secured were bred.

Culex dyari Coquillett.

This is a very early species and by no means common. On
May 29, immediately after my arrival at Kaslo, I found one
larva in a slow, cold stream in the woods. It pupated at once ;
so that even at that date the species had practically ceased breed
ing. No more larvae were found and no adults seen.

Culex tarsalis Coquillett

Two examples only occurred at Kaslo, one having entered my
room at the hotel, the other being taken at night while out sugaring
for moths. Larvae were found in a pool of permanent fresh
water near the sea at Victoria, B. C. They were mixed with
C. incidens. The larva belongs to the long-tubed group, with
the antennal tuft at the outer third of the joint, the antennas
broadly white banded, it falls in the synoptic table with C.
nigritulus,* but the air tube is not so long. The eggs were not
observed and may prove to be something unusual.

Culex perturbans Walker.

A single example was taken by Mr. Currie near the little lake.
The species was too rare for us to learn anything of its life
history.

Culex curriei Coquillett.

Likewise a single example, taken by Mrs. Dyar near Kaslo
Creek. This species also was too rare for us to obtain eggs or
learn anything of the larva.

*Not the European nigritulus. Mr. Coquillett has proposed a new
name for the American species, culex salinarius, Ent. News, xv, p. 73,
1904.

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Culex spenceri Theobald.

Two captured specimens at Kaslo ; oneby Mr. Currie June 13,
the other by myself June 24.

Culex consobrinus Desvoidy.
One captured specimen, July 3.

Anopheles maculipennis Meigen.

One male specimen taken in the hotel at Revelstoke, possibly
brought there on one of the trains. No larvae were seen.

Aedes fuscus Osten Sacken.

Very scarce. It was only met with in one instance, flying
near some pools on a hillside above the lake. Three examples
were taken which had come out from the shelter of the bushes
to bite.

Corethra velutina Ruthe.

Larvae occurred in a small pool cut off from the little lake,
mixed with Culex territans, on which they not improbably fed.
The larva has a breathing tube and air bubbles in its enlarged,
quadrate thorax, as in the figures of this species from Europe.

Sayomyia trivittata Say.

Larvae occurred in a neighboring pool to the preceding and
even in the little lake itself. The queer, transparent, ghost-like
things have been figured by me elsewhere.*

Eucorethra underwood! Underwood.

The larvae were found in various pools, principally with Culex
impiger, but also with C. incidens. When the mosquito larvae
were abundant enough to feed them, they generally grew up
rapidly and matured in July. In other cases, after they had
eaten all the mosquito larvae from a pool, they lingered till late
in the season. At Kaslo they were in the cold pools; at Glacier
in similar situations, but at Wellington, B. C., I found them in a
rain-water barrel. This species is much more injurious to
mosquito larvae than Corethra and Sayomyia because of its
large size and the fact that it seems to eat nothing else. It has
been described by Underwood and Johannsen.

Dr. Howard, in commenting upon Dr. Dyar's paper, said it
was interesting to compare the number of species (20) found
by Dr. Dyar in British Columbia with the number observed by

*Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., x, p. 201, 1902.

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entomologists in other parts of the country. Mr. Frederick
Knab, in the vicinity of Chicopee, Massachusetts, and Mr. O. A.
Johannsen at Ithaca, New York, had collected each fourteen
species ; Miss Isabel McCracken had obtained sixteen species
around Palo Alto, California ; Messrs. Morgan and Dupree, in
Louisiana, had brought together twenty-one species ; while Dr.
J. B. Smith had listed thirty-three species as occurring in the
State of New Jersey, and had bred all but two of them. From
these results it is evident that the number of mosquitoes to be
found in any one locality is much larger than was formerly im
agined.

Mr. Schwarz stated that during his recent stay in Cuba during
February and March, he did not find mosquitoes abundant. He
tried to collect all the specimens which came to bite him, how
ever, and these represent six different specie^ as determined by
Mr. Coquillett. He remarked that the scarcity of mosquitoes in
Cuba, in early spring, was in marked contrast to the abundance
of one species (Culex nanus Coquillett), at Key West, at the
same season.

NOVEMBER iS. 1903.

The iSist regular meeting was held at the residence of Mr. J.
D. Patten, 2212 R street, N.W. Vice-President Banks occu
pied the chair, and Messrs. Ashmead, Barber, Benton, Caudell,
Dyar, Felt, Gill, Heidemann, Hopkins, Howard, Kotinsky, Pat
ten, Schwarz, J. B. Smith, Summers, Uhler, Warner and Weed,
members, and Messrs. Britton, Burgess, Surface, Trainer and
\Velch, visitors, also present.

Prof. Uhler spoke informally about the distribution of the
Hemiptera in the West Indies. He said that about 7 species
were known to him from that region, a great number of these
being still undescribed. The character of this fauna is, of course,
that of Central America, many of the species being identical
with those found in Yucatan and the southern portions of the
Central American continent, about five per cent, occurring
within the limits of the United States. The real tropical ele
ment of this fauna occupies the lowlands, whereas at an altitude

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of about 5,000 feet the more temperate life-zone prevails. From
what is known of the fauna of Porto Rico, which is represented
in the U. S. National Museum by the collection of Mr. August
Busck, the island should be included in the group known as the
Greater Antilles. It is a notable fact that the fauna of the north
ern half of this island differs distinctly from that of the southern
half.

Mr. Schwarz concurred with Prof. Uhler in his opinion that
Porto Rico should be included in the Greater Antilles, and not
in the Lesser Antilles, where it has been placed by the Zoologi
cal Record. He said that, in referring to the ca~rd catalogue of
West Indian Coleoptera made by the late Mr. M. L. Linell, he
found that Haiti might be considered the central point for the
species peculiar to the West Indies. The chain of islands to the
southward contains a large proportion of truly Central American
and tropical forms whereas the Greater Antilles contain many
genera and species found also in our southern States.

Prof. Uhler said he agreed with Mr. Schwarz that the geo
logical formation of the Greater Antilles showed that it was at
one time connected with Yucatan as a part of the North Ameri
can continent.

Mr. Schwarz presented a paper entitled "A Census of the
Collection of West Indian Coleoptera at the U. S. National
Museum." Although the National Museum had, he said, never
sent an entomological exploration excursion to the West Indies,
and had never purchased any West Indian material, yet it had
accumulated from various sources, and mainly by the help of the
Department of Agriculture, a fair collection of the West Indian
Coleoptera. About the time the Riley collection was presented
to the Museum, a large part of the collections of the Department
of Agriculture and those of Prof. John B. Smith and Mr. M. L.
Linell were also turned over to the Museum, but only a few
West Indian species were found in the old collection as made up
from these sources, and up to 1894 there were only 136 species
of West Indian Coleoptera in the National Museum. One im
portant addition was made by the transfer of the H. G. Hubbard
collection. Mr. Hubbard visited Jamaica in 1886 and the is
land of Montserrat in 1894. In Jamaica he, collected 172 spe-

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cies, a complete set of which was sent for determination to Mon
sieur August Salle in Paris. Only a few of them were deter
mined by Salle and none returned. The Salle collection has
recently been bought by the British government and the material
is now in the British Museum. On the island of Montserrat Mr.
Hubbard collected about the same number of species, all of them
being of small size. A set of these, also, were sent toM. Salle
but hardly any determinations were received from him ; never
theless a complete set of this collection is now preserved in the
National Museum.

From 1894 to 1898 the only additions were such as came to
the Department of Agriculture by correspondence. It was a
notable fact, he said, that although two North American ento
mologists, namely, Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell and Prof. C. H.
Tyler Townsend, occupied official positions in Kingston, Jamaica,
the Department of Agriculture received only a few species of
Coleoptera from them.

Since the Spanish-American War by far the greatest part of
the collection has been added by the parties sent out by the De
partment of Agriculture for making certain investigations of an
economic nature. Most notable among them are the expeditions
of Mr. August Busck to Porto Rico and Cuba and of Mr. E. A.
Schwarz to Cuba. Two other expeditions, however, made con
siderable additions to the Museum collection, namely, that of
Messrs. Stejneger and Richmond to Porto Rico and that of
Messrs. Palmer and Riley to Cuba. The expenses of these two
expeditions were defrayed by the appropriation for the Pan-
American Exposition.

Mr. Schwarz then presented an enumeration of the material
in the Museum, arranged according to the different islands. He
referred to the works of Dr. Juan Gundlach on the faunae of
Cuba and Porto Rico, and complained that these works were so
little known and so litttle referred to by entomologists although
they contained many original notes on special localities, mode of
occurrence and early stages, especially in the Lepidoptera.

As to the insect fauna of the Bahama Islands, Mr. Schwarz
referred to the almost entire lack of literature. There is, how
ever, in the National Museum, a small collection of Bahama

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Coleoptera made by him while on a visit to the island at the ex
pense of the Department of Agriculture. The subtropical part
of Florida must, of course, also be included in the West Indian
fauna, and of this fauna there is an almost complete representa
tion in the National Museum, amounting to about 200 species.
The total of the West Indian collection of Coleoptera in the
National Museum foots up to about 1,160 species. Linell's card
catalogue, referred to above, includes 919 West Indian species,
and Mr. Schwarz, in completing that catalogue, has brought up
the total of described West Indian species to about 2,240 an ex
tremely small number when compared with the 2^,000 species
described from the Central American continent and the 13,000
species described from North America. The number of species
known from the adjacent portions of South America could not
then be given.

Mr. Summers stated that he had, several years ago, brought
200 or 300 species of Coleoptera from Grenada, where he was
collecting with Mr. Herbert H. Smith. He was not interested
in Coleoptera, however, and had put away what he collected.
Most of this material had been destroyed by pests since then,
unfortunately, but he promised to donate to the Museum what
still remained of them. Dr. Hopkins, also, promised to add two
or three species to the Grenada fauna in the Museum.

Prof. Smith gave some of his experiences during the time
when he was Assistant Curator of the Department of Insects in
the Museum, beginning in iSS^, and mentioned the material,
both in Coleoptera and Lepidoptera, which formed the nuclei of
the Museum collections in those orders. He said that most prob
ably a certain number of West Indian specimens which Mr.
Schwarz mentioned as a part of the old Museum collection came
from his private collection and had been purchased by him with
the old Schaupp collection. Mr. Schwarz then said that the
labels of the specimens referred to by Prof. Smith were in a
French handwriting and came very probably from the old Chev-
rolat collection which contained the material collected by Mr.
Felipe Poey.

Mr. Caudell stated that Gundlach's work was not mentioned
in the writings of either Scudder or Rehn. Prof. Uhler re-

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marked that it was impossible to buy a copy of it ; he knew of
only two copies in this country, one in New York and the other
in Washington. Mr. Ash mead said he had experienced great
difficulty in getting access to the works on South American in
sects by Spanish authors in South America.

Mr. Caudell read the following paper :

AN ORTHOPTEROUS LEAF-ROLLER.
By A. N. CAUDEI.L.

Early in July, 1900, while collecting in the vicinity of Wash
ington, D. C., I found a small papaw leaf neatly rolled by some
insect. Upon opening it I was surprised to see a very small
apterous orthopteron leap actively out, losing itself immediately
among the leaves on the ground. On close search I found on
the same plant another exactly similarly rolled leaf. Upon peer
ing into this very cautiously I found that it contained a specimen
like the one just lost. From an examination of the specimen
within the case I could only determine that it was a delicate,
pale colored Locustid with very long slender antennae, apparently
a very young specimen. This was preserved, but, not being at
that time interested in Orthoptera, 1 made no notes, nor did I
then know that the leaf was rolled by this insect.

On May 22, 1902, Mr. Busck handed me a small jar contain
ing some bits of willow bark and two Locustid nymphs. Upon
closely examining the material I found three eggs in a crevice in
a piece of bark, two empty, obviously those from which the
nymphs had issued, and one shriveled up, evidently destroyed
by fungus. The nymphs were identified as those of Campto-
notus carolinensis Gerst. The piece of bark containing these
eggs was taken about two feet above ground from a large tree.
Placing one of these nymphs in spirits I enclosed the other in a
glass tube with some willow leaves covered with plant lice. On
examing this tube the following day I found the insect had con
structed for itself a pocket in one of the leaves, and then I recog
nized without doubt the same insect I had taken two years before
on papaw. The pocket was made by cutting the leaf through
on each side to the midrib and at right angles to it and again one-
third of an inch further along the midrib, this time the incision
being formed at an angle with it. The flaps thus formed on either
side were then folded together and their edges fastened together
with silk-like strands, and I have subsequently seen cases with

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one end completely closed by a solid mat of this silk. The man
ner of constructing the pockets or rolls is not uniform. In some
cases the incisions are made near the apex of the leaf and then only
the two basal cuts are made, the tip of the leaf being folded back,
thus making the terminal cuts unnecessary. Sometimes the
pocket is formed altogether on one side of the midrib. Mr.
Busck luckily observed the formation of one of the pockets and
thus describes the process :

" When supplied with fresh leaves the insect at once com
menced making a new house, cutting with its mandibles incisions
from the edge of the leaf; then, grasping the thus movable
edges each with the three legs on each side and forcing
them together, it spun what was apparently silk thread from the
mouth, fastening the edges together. The whole performance
did not take five minutes after it was begun. The insect accur
ately measured the proper places for the cuts by placing itself
on the leaf and realizing how much space was needed. This
being determined, the work went rapidly on."

Within these pockets the nymphs live, coming out mostly at
night to feed on plant lice, which seem to form their entire food
supply during their early life. In confinement they will eat other
insects as Mr. Busck reports a specimen as eating at least one
young leaf hopper. In two days one I had under observation ate
a dozen large rose aphids, several willow lice and innumerable
smaller lice. It increased in length from four to five millimeters
in three days. Leaving the city at this point my interesting captive
was turned over to Mr. Banks who conscientiously fed and cared
for it until the 3Oth of May, when he unfortunately lost it while
attempting to transfer it from one jar to another.

From notes myde by Mr. Banks this insect seems to be princi
pally a night prowler. It feeds mostly at night though it will nt
times feed quite readily during the day. The following notes are
taken for the most part from those made by Mr. Banks :

There is apparently no choice in the kind of leaves used for
making the rolls. On May 26th it formed one in a honey-suckle
leaf. The exact manner of forming the roll, which was on only
one side of the midrib, was not noted. On May 27th, after dark,
when given some aphids from honey-suckle and maple, its feed
ing was observed by the light of a lamp. It seized an aphid,
bit it, turned it about by means of the palpi, and then proceeded
to eat it entirely up, skin and all. Then it walked nervously
around, palpi quivering, till it came close to another aphid,
which it seized by the back, sucked out the juices and then ate
the skin. Seven large aphids were thus eaten in a short time.
On May 29th another pocket was formed and the insect appeared
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having molted, though no cast skin could be found. It is quite pos
sible that the insect eats the cast skins of the earlier molts as is done
in the case of some other Locustidse, Microcentrtim for example.

This spring another attempt was made to rear this species from
the egg, but I had to leave for British Columbia and failure re
sulted. It is to be regretted that the life cycle of this interesting
insect could not have been completed, but, since so much is
known, it is to be hoped that the near future will see the com
pletion of the life history. Later in life its food habits doubt
lessly change, probably becoming essentially vegetarian. Though
no adults were secured from these experiments there is practically
no doubt of the determination, the generic characters being plainly
indicated in the nymph and there being but this one species known
from the United States.

Under the name Camptonotus scudderi this insect is said by-
Prof. Uhler* to occur on oak trees about Baltimore in the larval
state as early as the first of August, and as adults from the latter
part of September until sometime in October. Mature specimens
were taken by Mr. Barber on Plummer's Island, Md., on September
10, 1902.

While the nymph of this species has been mentioned by sev
eral writers, no reference to its feeding habits has been published
so far as I can learn. Riley, in a popular account of the insect
on page 186, volume II, of the Standard Natural History, says
it hides in a rolled leaf during the day with its long antennae
wrapped several times around the body. It is possible that it is
only during the younger stages that it forms these rolls. The
young nymphs are very active and run about rapidly. They
seldom jump except when disturbed, though capable of leaping
a considerable distance.

The egg and first stage nymph of this species may be described
as follows :

Egg. Size, 1.25 mm. wide by 4.25 mm. long. Shape round, obtusely
pointed at each end; the surface, when seen through a lens, has a regu
larly beaded appearance. The color of the egg after the insect has issued
is pallid with the extremities infuscated, but before hatching they may be
colored, probably greenish. The young insect issues through a small
trap cut in one end. This door is made by a longitudinal split on one
side, which at the lower end intersects at right angles a transverse frac
ture which extends a fourth of the distance around the egg at about one
millimeter from the end.

ist stage nymph. Head long and typically locustian. Eyes oblong,
dark brown in color; palpi pale, white at the tips; apical segment of the

* Proc Ent. Soc. Philadelphia, n, p 549, 1864.

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maxillary palpi white on the apical half and brown on the basal half, the
whole very slightly longer than the penultimate segment; antennae situ
ated between the eyes and below the median line; the segments beyond
the first, which is twice as long as the second, subequal in length and
gradually growing smaller at the tip where the antenna is as fine as a fine
hair, the whole antenna brownish in color and covered sparsely with short
microscopic hairs. The entire insect is of a very light brown below, al
most white, growing darker above, almost fuscous dorsally on the meso-
and metanota which are both visible behind the medium sized quadrate
prothorax. This latter is scarcely as wide as the head, truncate anteriorly
and broadly rounded posteriorly with weakly-developed lateral lobes.
The abdomen, which is slightly pyriform. shows ten dorsal segments, the
terminal one scarcely visible between the bases of the divergent cerci. The
legs are pale brownish, paler beneath and with pallid geniculations. The
tarsi are also pallid. Anal cerci flesh colored, scarcely as long as the last
three abdominal segments.

Length of body, from front of head to the tip of the abdomen, 4 mm. ;
of antennae, 20 mm. ; hind femora, 2 mm.

Mr. Caudell was asked whether he considered the orthopteron
a true silk-spinning insect, and he replied that he thought the
material used in fastening the roll might be simply dried saliva.
Mr. Banks said he thought the spinning material might properly
be called silk. Dr. Howard suggested that fresh specimens
should be dissected to see whether there were true spinning or
gans. Prof. Uhler stated that he had collected this insect near
Baltimore by beating it from trees.

Mr. Kotinsky showed specimensof a scale-insect (Lecantum
hemisphericum Targ.), which were found on a plant sent in to
the Department of Agriculture. Curiously enough some of them,
during transit, had transferred and fastened themselves to the
dryers in which the plants were pressed and had there laid eggs.

Mr. Caudell exhibited specimens of a West Indian cricket
{Anurogryllus antillarum Saussure). This insect is injurious
to various crops in the South, where it has been known for many
years, although it has never been referred to in print nor listed
as belonging to our fauna.

Mr. Barber exhibited specimens of the rare and curious
neuropteroid insect, Merope tuber Newman, collected the past
summer at Plummer's Island, Maryland, and presented the fol
lowing note :

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THE OCCURRENCE OF THE EARWIG-FLY, MEROPE
TUBER NEWMAN.

(NEUROPTERA, PANORPID^E.)
By HERBERT S. BARBER.

There is, perhaps, no more interesting species among North
American Neuropteroid insects than this singular Panorpid. Its
great rarity, together with the fact that its habits are entirely un
known, may make the present records interesting to some. It is
hoped that more data may be obtained the coming season.

Newman's type of the species, a female, was found by Double-
day at Trenton Falls, N. Y., in 1837. Sixteen years later,
July 1 6, 1853, Dr. Asa Fitch captured a female, which had
been attracted by the light of his candle, at Salem, N. Y. This
specimen is preserved in the U. S. National Museum. Hagen,
in his " Synopsis of the Neuroptera of North America," pub
lished in 1 86 1, gives two localities Berkeley Springs, Virginia *
(Osten Sackent), and Pennsylvania. On July 28, 1871, Dr.
Fitch found his second specimen, a male, " Running on papers
on office table, evening, having entered at the open door, prob
ably."! He published a very full account and description of the
species in his fourteenth report, but seems not to have known
of Hagen's paper. He captured his third and last specimen, a
female, on August 24, 1877, and says of it : " Same as preced
ing, and making short flights in the lamplight. "j| Fitch's sec
ond and third captures appear to be lost.

On August 22, 1886, Mr. E. A. Schwarz found a male speci
men, as published in the columns of our Proceedings, f under
a stone in what is now the Zoological Park of this city. Late in
the summer of 1898 Mr. O. F. Cook found a female specimen
near Tvlt. Vernon, Ya., also under a stone, and a few years ago
Mr. Nathan Banks captured a female at light, at Falls Church,
Va. Hine, in his Review of the Panorpidae of America, north
of Mexico,** adds Orono, Me., ft to the habitat, but gives no
further data.

* Now West Virginia.

t Osten Sacken's specimen was collected on the wall of the hotel
veranda bv lamplight one evening in the summer of 1856. See " Record
of My Life Work in Entomology," by C. R. Osten Sacken, Cambridge,
Mass., October, 1903.

J Fitch's note-book.

i4th Rept. Ent. N. Y. State Agr. Soc., pp. 373-381, 1872.

|| Fitch's note-book.

j[Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., i, p. 55, 1888.

** Bull. Ohio State Univ., Ser. v, No. 7, Feb., 1901.

tf Mr. Samuel Henshaw writes me that this specimen was collected by
Prof. C. H. Fernald,

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Last summer the following specimens were taken in this
vicinity all at light except one which evidently had come to
light the previous evening : Mr. Schwarz captured a male on
Plummer's Island, Md., on June 19. Mr. Busck took one male
and two females, and saw a fourth example all within three
or four minutes of each other on Plummer's Island, September
9, about 10 o'clock in the evening. He found another female
at the same place about 7 P. M. on September n, and still
another female, dead but still soft, in his house at Langdon,
D. C., September 18, 1903.

We now have records, therefore, of sixteen specimens seven in
the National Museum Collection ; two in Mr. Bank's Collection ;
one, the type, in the British Museum ; three in the collection
of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Mass. ;
one in Mr. Cook's Collection and, lastly, the two missing speci
mens from the Fitch Collection.

The following article was presented for publication :

"THE GENERA OF THE DIPTEROUS FAMILY EMPIDIDiE."

(ADDENDA.)
By D. W. CoqyiLLETT.

In the paper under the above heading, which appeared on
pages 245 to 272 of Volume Vof these Proceedings, it was stated
several times that the writer had been unable to consult a copy
of Macquart's " Insectes Dipteres du Nord de la France," separate
edition. This work has recently been obtained for the library of
the U. S. Department of Agriculture by the efficient Librarian,
Miss Josephine A. Clark, and I am thus enabled to make the
following supplementary remarks and corrections to the article
in question :

Page 246, under Ardoptera. Macquart mentioned only the
one species given in his later work.

Page 249, under Elaphropeza. Only the single species was
mentioned.

Page 252, Leptopeza should be Lemtopeza ; only the one
species was mentioned by Macquart.

Page 2^3, under Microphorus. Three species were described,
the second being velutinus.

Page 255, under Platy palpus. Eighteen species were de
scribed, of which cursitans was the fourteenth.

The data given in my paper in regard to this separate edition
were chiefly derived from Macquart's later works ; several of these

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references are erroneous and have been corrected in the errata in
serted at the end of the volume in which the paper appeared.

I may add that Dr. M. Bezzi, of Sondrio, Italy, writes me that
Holoclera is a synonym of Macrostomus, and that the type
species of the former is a synonym of Rhamphomyia umbri-
pennis Meigen.

Mr. Welsh, who was then introduced to the Society by Dr.
Howard, exhibited a large Cerambycid beetle, Macrotoma luzo-
num Fabricius, and a carpenter bee taken by him in the Philip
pine Islands. Mr. Ashmead identified the carpenter bee as
Xylocopa bombiforniis Smith, a species in which the males have
until recently been unknown, being of quite different aspect from
the females. The females are bluish black and the males
yellowish green.

DECEMBER 3, 1903.

The iSzd regular meeting was held at the residence of Dr.
Wm. H. Ashmead, 1807 Belmont avenue, N.W., Vice-President
Banks in the chair, and Messrs. Ashmead, Barber, Benton,
Currie, Dyar, Gill, Heidemann, Hopkins, Kotinsky, Patten,
Quaintance, Schwarz, Titus, Ulke, Warner and Webb, members,
and Mr. W. M. Scott, visitor, also present.

Mr. C. Schaeffer, of the Museum, Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn,
N. Y., was elected a corresponding member, and Messrs. W. F.
Fiske and A. W. Morrill, of the Division of Entomology, U. S.
Department of Agriculture; Mr. W. M. Scott, of the Division
of Vegetable Pathology, U. S. Department of Agriculture,
and Prof. C. V. Piper, of the Division of Agrostology, U. S.
Department of Agriculture, active members.

The officers of the Society during 1903,* were re-elected for

* President, Mr. D. W.. Coquillett; First Vice-President, Mr. Nathan
Banks; Second Vice-President, Dr. A. U.Hopkins; Recording Secretary,
Mr. Rolla P. Currie; Corresponding Secretary, Mr. Frank Benton;
Treasurer, Mr. J. D. Patten; Additional members of the Executive Com
mittee : Dr. H. G. Dyar, Dr. L. O. Howard and Mr. C. L. Marlatt.
Publication Committee : Mr. Rolla P. Currie, Dr. H. G. Dyar, Mr. E. A.
Schwarz, Dr. L. O. Howard and Dr. Wm. H. Ashmead.

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the year 1904. Upon motion by the Society to increase the mem
bership of the Publication Committee, the Chair appointed, in
addition to the present members, Mr. D. W. Coquillett and Mr.
Otto Heidemann.

In the absence of Mr. Coquillett the annual address of the
President was then read by the Recording Secretary.

ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICAN DIPTEROLOGY.
By D. W. Coqyii.LETT.

In searching for a topic that promised to be of some interest
to the members of this Society, it occurred to me that perhaps a
brief history of the science of Dipterology as it applies to this
country might not be wholly devoid of interest, the more so as
nothing of this kind has been attempted within recent years.

In so far as this science affects our fauna, it had its inception
in the year 1763; in that year the immortal Linne described a
single Dipteron from Pennsylvania under the name of Asilus
astuans, a species now placed in the genus Erax. Not only
was it the first member of this order from our fauna to be hon
ored with a name and description, but it also enjoys the distinc
tion of being the first Dipteron described from any country outside
of Europe.

The time extending from the year above mentioned down to
the present may be conveniently divided into three epochs. The
first of these was terminated by the advent of the first published
description of a North American Dipteron by an American
author; this occurred in the year 1817, when the equally im
mortal Thomas Say published a description of a single new
species of Diptera, likewise from Pennsylvania, under the name
of Diopsis brevicornis^ for which he later erected the new genus
Sphyracephala. This first epoch, covering a period of 54
years, witnessed an even dozen foreign writers describe new
forms of Diptera from the United States. Among these are such
noted authors as Linne, Fabricius, De Geer, Drury and Olivier.

The second epoch comprises the time from the appearance of

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this first paper by Say to the advent of a distinctively American
Dipterologist in the person of Dr. S. W. Williston, whose initial
descriptive paper appeared in the year 1880 and contained de
scriptions of three new species Rhynckocephalus sackcnii, Sil-
vius pollinosits and Chrysops discalis all of them inhabitants
of the western half of this country. During this second epoch,
which covered a period of 63 years, no less than 40 different
authors published descriptions of new forms of Diptera from the
United States. Of this number, fifteen, or more than one-third
of the whole, were Americans. In making this calculation I have
included those who, although of foreign birth, have taken up
their residence among us and remained here during the balance

o o

of their natural lives. Of this latter number are B. D. Walsh
and Dr. H. A. Hagen, both of whom, during the latter part of
their lives, were essentially citizens of this country. Students of
all the orders, but more particularly those engaged in the study
of our Diptera, could wish to include Baron Osten Sacken in this
category ; his long residence among us, his active interest in all
branches of entomology, but especially in our Diptera as is
evidenced not only by his published writings, but also by the
presence in this country, within easy reach of our students, of
the collection containing the type specimens of the species de
scribed by Dr. H. Loew and himself, for which we are indebted
to his careful foresight and unremitting efforts in our behalf
have combined to give to that distinguished Dipterologist a place
among us not enjoyed by any other citizen of other lands.

While, during this second epoch, our Dipterological literature
has been enriched by contributions from the pens of such mas
ters as Say, Wiedemann, Schiner, Osten Sacken and Loew, we
have also been inflicted by such indifferent workers as Desvoidy,
Bigot and Walker. Among the Dipterologists of this period
who have completed their earthly careers, the name of J. R.
Schiner, of Austria, must be accorded a very exalted place ; not
only did he possess in a marked degree the faculty of discerning
the most striking differences existing between the different ob
jects which he described, but he also had the happy faculty of
expressing them in words that admitted of no misunderstanding
of the idea he intended to convey, while his conscientiousness was

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apparent in all of his acts. On the other hand, at the very bot
tom of the list, one would be inclined to place the ubiquitous
Robineau-Desvoidy ; while his larger groups show some ap
proach to a natural arrangement, his conception of a genus and
species and his futile attempts at describing them, are as unsatis
factory as they well could be, and it is therefore -not at all sur
prising that Rondani (a genius in his way, as is more particu
larly evidenced by his masterly treatment of the family Antho-
myidae, one of the most obscure and difficult groups in the whole
order), after recording the names of several of Desvoidy's sup
posed species as synonyms of some well-known form, not infre
quently placed a suggestive " etc.'' after the last one, indicating
that several more names from the same source could be added ad
libitum.

Wiedemann, who was a contemporary of Say, was the first
writer to pollute our nomenclature of the Diptera by changing
several of the valid specific names imposed by Say ; sometimes
this pollution was simply a matter of one or two letters, at other
times the entire name was changed for no other apparent reason
than that the new one was more descriptive of the species than
was the original. Loew followed Wiedemann in this unfortu
nate respect, and, being a more prolific writer, the mischief which
he wrought was correspondingly greater. Unfortunately, these
polluted names have been given the place of the valid ones in
Osten Sacken's otherwise excellent catalogue of our Diptera, and
later writers, with few exceptions, have followed the catalogue
as a matter of expediency.

This polluting of the nomenclature comes down to us from the
very beginning of our binomial system. It was the custom of
Linne, in the subsequent editions of his works, to occasionally
change the names which he had previously bestowed upon cer
tain species, sometimes simply changing the manner of spelling,
but at other times an entirely different name was substituted, and
in rare cases the old name was transferred to a totally different
species. Considering the fact that he wrote at a time when
science was just beginning to free itself from fiction, his actions
can perhaps be condoned ; but at the present time there would
appear to be no excuse either for polluting the valid names im
posed by the original describers or for using such polluted names

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in preference to the valid ones. The name of the genus, or spe
cies as imposed bv its first describer is a matter of much historic
and scientific moment ; what any person's opinion is as to what
the name ought to have been is a matter of no importance, and
belongs rather to the realm of fiction than to pure science.
Students in this country almost without exception are agreed that
only in the case of preoccupation is there a valid excuse for
changing the name of a genus or species, and then, in the case
of a genus, the name to be changed must be identical letter for
letter with the earlier name.

Shortly after the advent of Dr. Williston upon the scene, quite
a number of our students began to seriously study our Diptera
and to record the result of their studies in our various journals
and other publications ; in fact, nearly all that has been published
on our species within recent years has been the work of our own
students. This is certain to result in a better understanding of
these insects than was possible'under the old regime, since it must
be apparent to all that the student who studies his subjects in the
field as well as in the laboratory, and who is in a position to col
lect the specimens in large numbers, will obtain a more correct
idea of the limits of a species and is also in a position to more
accurately interpret the older descriptions which relate to his
fauna, than any student in a distant land. This latter fact is
clearly set forth in a comparison of two monographs which deal
with our Diptera, the one written by Doctor Loew, an author
who had never even visited our shores, the other by Doctor Willis-
ton, who was born and brought up among the objects of which
he wrote. In the first work, a " Monograph of the Dolicho-
podidse," of the 60 descriptions of species from the United
States published by previous authors, only 8, or less than one-
seventh of the entire number, were recognized by Loew, while
the remaining species he described as new. There is, of course,
no grounds for doubting the fact that a large proportion of the
latter are identical with those described by the older authors, and
consequently these species have ever since been sailing under
false colors, while their valid names have been permitted to encum
ber our lists as a useless, meaningless mass, and thus they must re
main until some conscientious student from this country again
gives this family a careful revision, as a result of which a large per-

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centage of these old names will be restored to their rightful places.
In strong contrast to this makeshift and unsatisfactory method is
the result obtained by Doctor Williston, as indicated in his " Syn
opsis of the North American Syrphidse;" of the 223 descriptions
of species from the United States, to the type specimens of which
he did not have access, he succeeded in identifying 170, or more
than three-fourths of the whole number, as compared to less
than one-seventh, in the case of Dr. Loew. After due allow
ances are made, the result is very much in favor of the man upon
the ground.

There is an unfortunate tendency, particularly among new re
cruits, to describe at once as new all forms that do not agree in
all respects with existing descriptions as they interpret them.
The identifying of species from published descriptions is always
attended with a certain degree of uncertainty, and unless one has
access to representatives of all the species described in a given
group it is advisable to label the specimen with the name of the
species with the description of which it most nearly agrees,
placing a question mark before the specific name. It is only
when one has access to practically all the forms occurring in a
given region that he is in a position to correctly interpret the
published descriptions of species from that region. In several
cases the descriptions contain actual misstatements a fact that
should not be overlooked when identifying species from descrip
tions onlv.

The present epoch has also witnessed a notable advance in our
knowledge of the early stages of at least a portion of our Diptera ;
this was inaugurated by Dr. L. O. Howard in his studies of
our mosquitoes, a work in which he has been ably seconded by
the patient labors of Dr. H. G. Dyar, Dr. J. B. Smith, Prof.
O. A. Johannsen, and a few others. Dr. Dyar has described
and figured the early stages of nearly every kind of mosquito
that has come within his reach, while Dr. Smith informs me that
during the last two seasons he has obtained the early stages of 31
of the 33 species known to inhabit New Jersey a remarkable
achievement, indicative of what may be accomplished in other
groups by continuous, well-directed efforts. In the list of the
insects of New Jersey, published only three years ago, only ten

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species of Culicidae were credited to that State less than one-
third of the number now known to occur there.

This increased interest in the early stages of our Diptera is cer
tain to result in a better understanding of these insects ; no mat
ter how expert a student may become in separating the adults into
their proper species, it is not until we obtain a knowledge of all
of the early stages of any given form that its status as a species
becomes fully established, and it is to be hoped that investiga
tions in this direction will be continued until the early stages of
every Dipteron in our fauna has been made known.

The presidential address was favorably commented upon by
Messrs. Ulke, Kotinsky, Ashmead, Schwarz, Gill and others.
Mr. Ulke stated that he was indebted to Dr. Loew for his first
knowledge of real insect collecting, the latter having, some sev
enty years ago, visited his father's home, in Germany, and shown
him the method of using the various implements employed in in
sect collecting. Dr. Gill said that he agreed with Mr. Coquillett
that a generic name should be considered as preoccupied only
when the previously proposed name agreed with it exactly, letter
for letter. He remarked, however, that many, perhaps the
majority, of systematists would take issue with him on this point.

Dr. Hopkins read a paper entitled " Notes on the Scolytidae
of the Fitch Collection," and exhibited specimens from the Fitch
collection in the National Museum. He referred to the note
books examined by him in the library of the Boston Society of
Natural History, and called attention to Fitch's method of num
bering and labeling specimens. The collection represents twenty-
four species, including five which are still undescribed. The
species were identified and arranged by Dr. Hopkins, in his
paper, according to his manuscript Synopsis and Check-List of
the Scolytidae of America north of Mexico. He thought best,
therefore, to withhold the paper from publication until the syn
opsis shall have been published.

Mr. Ulke said that he saw Fitch some fifty years ago. The reason
there were so many wrongly named Coleoptera in the Fitch col
lection was because Fitch had been unable to secure any help
from coleopterists. Fitch told him that he had written repeatedly

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to Dr. LeConte asking his co-operation in determining the
species in his collection, but had received no reply. He, there
fore, worked almost entirely unaided, gave names to such species
as he could identify, and labelled all others with his own manu
script names.

Mr. Schwarz stated that there were various things concerning
Fitch's collection and Fitch's types, which seem to be unknown
to many of our younger entomologists. He more especially
referred to the insects sold by Dr. Fitch to the New York State
Agricultural Society and which are now in the New State
Museum at Albany. This collection probably does not contain
any type specimens whatever. What is a type in the Fitch col
lection can only be ascertained by consulting Fitch's note-books.
Six of these note-books, with the corresponding boxes of the
original Fitch collection, were bought many years ago by the
U.S. Department of Agriculture and are now in the U. S. Na
tional Museum. The record of the types, as given by Dr. Riley
in Lintner's paper on the Fitch collection,* is correct. The
rema : ning note-books of Fitch became separated from the Fitch
collection, and some of them are now in the possession of the
Boston Society of Natural History. The others seem to be lost.
The remnant of the Fitch collection of insects was finally pur
chased by the Department of Agi'culture, but proved to be in a
very deplorable state of preservation.

The subject of Fitch's types, and types in general, was further
discussed by Messrs. Ashmead, Hopkins, Titus, Schwarz, Dyar
and Banks.

Dr. Dyar handed the following articles to the Secretary for
publication :

A NEW VARIETY OF THE NOCTUID EXYRA
SEMICROCEA GUENEE.

{Exyra semicrocea, variety hubbardiana, n. var.)
By HARRISON G. DYAR.

The usual form of semicrocea has the outer half of the fore
wings solidly blackish. In hubbardiana this color is largely

* Ninth Kept. N. Y. State Ent. for the year 1892, pp. 411-413, 1893.

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faded out and lost, leaving a broad dark band, representing the
inner edge of the usual patch and a subterminal band, the latter
situated in a broad, light grayish field, which extends to the
margin and touches the median band centrally. Two males, De
Funiak Springs, Florida (H. G. Hubbard), bred on Sarracenia
flava, mixed with normal semicrocea and with E. ridingsii
^Riley.

Type. No. 7335, U. S. National Museum.

A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF TORTRICID^.

By HARRISON G. DYAR.
Gymnandrosoma, new genus.

Palpi rather long, obliquely ascending, second joint only slightly
widened by scales, third distinct, rounded; $ antennae compressed, mi
nutely bristled, subserrate ; wings broad, costa arched, without fold in
the $, veins all separate; vein 2 of the fore wings from near the middle
of the cell, 3 and 4 approximate at base, 5 more distant, 7 to outer margin,
8 to costa, separate; hind wings with 3 and 4 connate, 5 remote, nearly
parallel to 4, 6 and 7 closely approximated at base. Thorax with a double
truncate tuft behind; abdomen in the (^ with the basal segments of dor-
sum bare of scales, a pair of pencils of yellowish hair arising from the tip
of the second segment. Inner margin of hind wings excavated below into
a large pocket which covers the abdominal hair pencil when the wings
are closed.

Allied to Pseudogalleria and Ecdytolopha^ut differing in
the peculiar position of the d* scent tuft, which is on the abdo
men instead of in a fold of the wing.

Gymnandrosoma punctidiscanum, new species.

Wings roughly scaled, strigose, dark gray from blackish scales heavily
overlaid on a pale ground, nearly solidly so over the basal two-thirds,
sometimes over the whole wing, but usually leaving the terminal third
largely light. A round, punctiform, whitish discal dot, in the males sit
uated nearly at the edge of the dark basal area which is curved inward
below the cell. A more or less distinct, maculate, broken submarginal
band, composed of dark patches with darker edges. Hind wings blackish
brown.

Expanse c? 18-19 mm., 9 21-25 mm.

Described from two* males and three females, Washington,
D. C., May (L. O. Howard), New Brighton, Pa., June 2, Aug.
25 (H. D. Merrick), Newark, N. J., June n (W. D. Kearfott),
Long Island, N. Y.

U. S. National Museum, type No. 7658.

[ISSUED FEBRUARY 13, 1904.]

TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER.

PAGE.

BARBER, HERBERT S. : The occurrence of the Earwig-fly, Merope

tuber Newman 50

CAUDELL, A. N. : Branched hairs of Hymenoptera, 5 ; An Orthopterous

leaf-roller .. 46

CoqyiLLETT, D. W. : "The Genera of the Dipterous family Empididse"

(Addenda), 51 ; A brief history of North American Dipterology. 53

CURRIE, ROLLA P.: An insect collecting trip to British Columbia.... 24

DYAR, HARRISON G. : Description of the larva of Ethmia zelleriella
Chambers, 3; Description of the larva of Litodonta hydromeli
Harvey, 3 ; Note on the distribution of the red forms of Diacrisia,
18 ; A Lepidopteron parasitic upon Fulgoridae in Japan
(Epipyrops nawai, n. sp.), 19; Halesidota maculata Harris and
its varieties, 19; The larvre of the mosquitoes Megarhinus
rutilus Coquillett and M. portoricensis Rceder, 20; Notes on
the Mosquitoes of British Columbia, 37; A new variety of the
Noctuid Exyra semicrocea Guenee (Exyra semicrocea, variety
hubbardiana, n. var.), 60; A new genus and species of Tor-
tricidse 60

HEIDEMANN, OTTO : Remarks on the genitalia of Podisus cynicus Say

arid Podisus bracteatus, Fitch 9

SCHWARZ, E. A. : The Cotton-boll Weevil in Cuba (Anthonomus

grandis Boheman) 13

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The 1830! regular meeting was held at the residence of Dr.
L. O. Howard, 2026 Hillyer Place, N. W. Vice-President
Hopkins in the chair, and Messrs. Ashmead, Barber, Benton,
Burke, Busck, Caudell, Currie, Dyar, Fiske, Gill, Hinds, How
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and J. F. Strauss, visitors, present.

Dr. Wm. II . Ashmead was re-elected to represent the Ento
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Dr. Howard passed around for examination Volume II, the
concluding volume, of Newstead's Monograph of the British Coc-
cidie, recently issued by the Ray Society. He drew attention to
the fine quality of the illustrations, stating that in his opinion
they were the best illustrations of Coccidae that have yet been
published. The majority of the species treated are, he said,
cosmopolitan. Of thirty-six species treated in Volume I, prob
ably only three are indigenous to Great Britain. Of especial
interest are the descriptions of the cW in the genus Lecanium
and particularly of the cT of L. hesperidum which has not been
described before. Newstead describes the <$ of this species, in
the puparium only, from specimens sent him from Bath, Eng
land. Mr. Albert Koebele, in his correspondence with the De-

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partment of Agriculture while in Australia in quest of preda-
ceous enemies of scale insects, stated that there the c?c? of Le-
canium hesperidum were as abundant as the $ 9 , but he appar
ently failed to send in any specimens.

Dr. Ash mead exhibited specimens of a peculiar leaf- sew
ing ant (CEcophylla smaragdina Fabricius) from the Philip
pines, together with examples of its work. The method by which
the leaves are sewed together is most remarkable. The worker
ants hold their own larvae in their jaws while these spin a fine
thread that holds the edges of the leaves together. Dr. Ash-
mead commented on the structural peculiarities of the species.

Dr. Dyar presented for publication the following papers :

ADDITIONS TO THE LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN LEPI-
DOPTERA, NO. i.

BY HARRISON G. DYAR.

The following are a few new species that have come to notice
together with some species here first recorded as belonging to
our region.

Family NOCTUID.E.
Tornacontia mediatrix, n. sp.

Head dark brown, thorax white, a broad tip to the collar and a pair of
dots on posterior disk brown-black. Fore wings white, basal space shaded
with pale leaden gray to beyond t.-a. line, which is white and twice angled
in one specimen, lost in the other and represented only by the gray shade
beyond it. A quadrate purplish black patch on the center of inner margin
reaching to median vein, narrowly separated by awhile line from a broad,
leaden gray band which runs to costa before apex. Two gray spots on
costa at points of inception of the obsolete median and t.-p. lines. Orbic
ular a black dot; reniform a broken black ringlet; a small gray patch at
apex; a terminal row of black dashes; fringe gray at anal angle and above
middle of outer margin. Hind wings white, brownish outwardly. Ex
panse 24 to 25 mm.

Eight specimens, cf and 9,Huachuca Mts., Arizona (Oslar),
Las Vegas Hot Springs, New Mexico (Schwarz and Barber).

Type. No. 7686, U. S. National Museum.

The species of Tornacontia, at present described, may be
separated as follows :

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Head and thorax white.

Fore wings with white space below orbicular followed by a blackish
patch.

Hind wings all brownish sutrix Grote.

Hind wings nearly all white altera Smith.

Fore wings largely leaden gray megocula Smith.

Head blackish, collar black tipped.
Fore wing with white space below orbicular followed by a quadrate

blackish patch mediatrix Dyar.

Fore wing without discolorous dark patch tripartita Smith.

Acontia ceyvestensis, n. var.

Similar to aprim Illibner, but smaller and the head and thorax white.
Three examples are marked like dprica Hiibner on the wings, two others
like biplaga Guenee. Expanse 20 to 24 mm.

Five specimens, Key West, Fla.

Type. No. 7687, u. S. National Museum.

I conclude that aprica and biplaga are varieties of one species,
although Smith has recorded the contrary opinion.* Indeed a
series of 40 specimens before me shows the two forms to inter-
grade. One of the specimens from Texas (form aprica} has
only a little of the dark color left on the vertex of head and thus
closely approaches the local race ceyvestensis.

Oncocnemis laticosta, n. sp.

Thorax blackish, variegated with pale ocherous scales, collar largely of
the pale color; abdomen light. Fore wings pale ocherous in ground
color, the inner two-thirds of wing heavily overlaid with blackish, pow
dery, not obscuring the marks. Lines as in m lalutea Smith, black,
edged with pal?, crenulate; basal line obsolete, t.-a. slightly arcuate,
t.-p. bent out beyond cell with white points on veins 2 and 4. Terminal
space dark shaded, enclosing the pale, broken, irregular subterminal line.
Ordinary spots pale ocherous, filled by a darker shade; orbicular elongate,
claviform punctiform, nearly obsolete. A row of terminal black dashes
outlined by narrow pale arcs. Fringe brown, cut by white, interlined in
gray. Hind wings white, a smoky narrow outer border, fringe white.
Expanse 30 mm.

Five specimens, Jerome, Arizona (Oslar).

7'ype.No. 7688, U. S. National Museum.

Nearly allied to melalutea Smith, but differing in the more
diversified color, the contrasting pale tint of costal area, the
elongate orbicular and the whiter, more narrowly bordered hind
wings.

* Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xxvir, p. 69, 1900.

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Oncocnemis tetrops, n. sp.

Head and thorax gray with black scales, collar with white scales before
and a black line, abdomen light gray. Fore wings dark gray, terminal
third uniformly blackish, crossed only by the blacker veins ; costal area
lightened by whitish streaks. Orbicular and reniform black centered,
white ringed, orbicular elliptical, reniform cut in two by the centering
black line which touches the end of the orbicular; median vein black with
a narrow white edge above. There is a black basal dash that apparently
joins the claviform as in chandleri Grote, but this part of the wing is
rubbed. Hind wings whitish with a diffuse outer border of pale smoky, a
dark broken terminal line; fringe white. Expanse 30 mm.

Five specimens, Jerome, Arizona (Oslar).
Type. No. 7689, U. S. National Museum.
Near chandleri Grote, Colorado Smith and oblita Grote, but
the subterminal line is wholly lost.

Copablepharon sanctae monicse, n. sp.

Thorax and fore wings pale ocherous, the thorax before a shade darker;
abdomen whitish at base, else brown. A black point on median vein and
on vein i represent t.-a. line; a cluster of black and brown scales at
origin of veins 3-4; t.-p. line a row of eight elongate black dots; fringe
pale. Hind wings whitish on inner margin and fringe, disk largely shaded
with deep brown ; an outer row of elongate black dots on the veins. Ex
panse 36 mm.

Two tfc?, Santa Monica, California (J. J. Rivers).
Type. No. 7690, U. S. National Museum.

Family NOTODONTI1XE.

Afilia oslari, n. sp.

Fore wings with veins 6 to 10 stalked, hind wings with 6 and 7 stalked ;
otherwise agreeing in structure with the type of the genus. Head and
thorax dark gray, abdomen ochraceous. Fore wings narrow, gray, basal
line obscure, lost in the more or less black powdering that fills' the basal
space. Lines geminate, approximate, black, slightly ochraceous filled, a
little crenulate or angled, not strong. A curved, lunate, black discal
dash. Subterminal line smoky, diffuse, black, tending to be broken on
the veins. A series of terminal oblique intravenular dashes; a black line
at base of fringe. Hind wings white. Expanse 30 to 32 mm.

Four specimens, c?cf , Nogales, Arizona (Oslar) ; Guadala
jara, Mexico (Neumoegen).

Nv. 7691, U, S, National Museum.

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Notela jaliscana Schaus.

Ten specimens, Nogales and Huachuca Mts., Arizona (Oslar).
The Nogales specimens all lack the black longitudinal stripe,
while the others all have it. I do not think this more than
varietal. Mr. Schaus mentions its presence or absence in his
description.

Pseudhapigia brunnea Schaus.

Four specimens from Mr. Oslar, taken in Nogales and Tucson,
Arizona. Only two species are known in this genus, and it may
be that the form before me is new, as it does not tally in all
respects with the descriptions of brunnea Schaus or xolotl
Schaus. But 1 have no authentic specimens of these species be
fore me. In my specimens the color is a warm red-brown.

Family MEGALOPYGID^.
Archylus tener Druce.

Mr. E. J. Oslar has sent me a c? specimen, taken in southern
Arizona. It is, apparently, referable to the Megalopygidae,
though the structure is unusual as there is no branch to vein i
on the fore wings, while veins 7 and 8 of hind wings are united
to well beyond the end of the cell, arising from a stalk from its
upper angle. The appearance of the insect is well shown in the
.rigure in the Biologia Central!- Americana, pi. 79, fig. 6.

It may remain for the present in the genus Archylus Walker,
though not agreeing entirely. The type of Archylus is gutti-
fascia Walker, which, as Sir G. F. Hampson kindly informs
me, is a Megalopygid much like tener, but vein 8 of the hind
wings arises just before angle of the cell while the cell is short.
These differences are probably of generic value, but I will only
call attention to them now.

NOTE ON THE LARVA OF AN HAWAIIAN PYRALID.

( Omiodes accepta Butler) .
By HARRISON G. DYAR.

Mr. D. L. Van Dine, of the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture's
Experiment Station at Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, has sent me
larvae of Omiodes accepta, collected from young sugar cane at
the Niulii Plantation, Kohala, Island of Hawaii.

Larva, Head rounded, slightly bilobed, green, checkered with angular
faint luteous spots; a black spot below seta ii, a little oblique dash above

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paraclypeus, eyes and jaws black. Body slender, cylindrical, subequal,
the segments coarsely 3-annulate. Uniform green, the dorsal vessel edged
by a more or less distinct opaque white fat body. Tubercles moderate,
concolorous, iv -f- v normal, on the thorax ia -f- ib, iia -f- iib; setae rather
large, pale. Feet normal, the crochets in a circle narrowly broken without.
Cervical shield concolorous, two small black dots at its lateral margin ; a
blackish line below tubercle iia -j- iib on joint 3. Spiracles concolorous;
all feet pale.

Dr. Ash mead exhibited proof sheets and illustrations of his
forthcoming classification of the Superfamily Chalcidoidea,
commenting on many of the strange and interesting species
figured. In reply to a question as to the number of species of
Chalcid-flies, he stated that he believes that there are between
3,000,000 and 4,000,000 species of Chalcidoidea in the world.

Dr. Hinds and Prof. Quaintance were asked to give the Society
an informal account of the Cotton-boll Weevil (AntJionomus
grandis} and the Boll-worm, with their experiences and the
results of their recent investigations on these pests. Dr. Hinds
gave the life-history of the Cotton-boll Weevil and told of some
of the measures that are being taken to prevent its spread and
undue multiplication. Prof. Quaintance spoke further on the
same subject and also alluded to the present status of the Boll-
worm (ffeliothis armiger} in Texas and other cotton-growing
States. Prof. Quaintance said that the record of the largest
number of eggs laid by a single moth of the Boll-worm had
been raised, as a result of his observations, from 600 to 2,200.
Dr. Dyar was asked as to the number of eggs laid by allied
Noctuidae. He replied that he did not know whether there were
any records as high as that, but that he knew of an Arctian that
lays as many as 2,200 eggs.

FEBRUARY 4, 1904.

The 1 84th regular meeting was held at the residence of Mr.
Otto Heidemann, 700 Newark street, N. W. In the absence of
the President and both Vice-Presidents, .Dr. Howard was elected
Chairman pro tern., and there were present Messrs. Ash mead,

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Barber, Benton, Burke, Busck, Caudell, Currie, Gill, Heide-
mann, Hinds, Kotinsky, Morrill, Morris, Patten, Piper, Titus,
Warner and Webb, members, and Dr. J. R. Sheldon, visitor.

Under miscellaneous business a vote was taken on the amendr
ments to Article VII of the Constitution, proposed by the
Executive Committee at the December meeting. The amend
ments were adopted and the Article as amended now reads as
follows :

SECTION i . The initiation fee of active members shall be one
dollar ; the annual fee three dollars, payable at each annual
meeting after election. Any active member in arrears for one
year may, after one month's notification, be dropped from the
rolls. No member in arrears shall be entitled to vote.

SECTION 2. Corresponding members shall pay no initiation
fee, but shall pay an annual fee of two dollars, payable at
election and at each annual meeting thereafter. Any corres
ponding member in arrears for one year may, after notification,
be dropped from' the rolls.

SECTION 3. Members elected within three months previous to
an annual meeting shall not be required to pay an annual fee
for the year in which they are elected.

Mr. Kotinsky exhibited an abnormal specimen of Culex
pipiens. It was received with a collection of Central American
mosquitoes. The abdomen of the specimen is much distended
but seems to contain nothing except the ovaries and the eggs.
Mr. Caudell stated that in Mr. Pergande's notes on mosquitoes
reared at the Department of Agriculture there are a number of
references to specimens with similarly inflated abdomen. Mr.
Kotinsky said that the condition of the abdomen of the mos
quito was much the same as that of the abdomen of house
flies that have become affected by fungus growth. Mr. Morris
said that while he was at Lansing, Michigan, summer before
last, he was invited by the entomologist there, Mr. R. H. Pettit,
to examine some fungus-affected mosquitoes. Mr. Pettit, Mr.
Morris said, is carrying on experiments in the inoculation of
mosquitoes with fungus diseases.

Mr. Kotinsky reported the receipt from Prof. CarlF. Baker,
Claremont, California, of an undetermined insect gall which was

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found to be infested by the ant Azteca bicolor Emery, by two
kinds of scale insects a Dactylopius (Pseudococcus) and a
Lecanium and by another creature which he was unable to
classify. Mr. Banks, who afterwards examined the latter, re
ports that it is a larva belonging to the dipterous family Platype-
zidaB, and looks very similar to the larva of the genus Callomyia.

Mr. Caudell exhibited an original drawing of a Walking-
stick that has recently been found in Florida and which is an
addition to the fauna of the United States. The species is
ffoploptts evadne, described by Westwood from the West
Indies. The specimen from which the drawing was made was
taken on Loggerhead Key. He called attention to the fact that
the tubercles on the right side of the head are much larger than
on the left. He also stated that while the females have aborted
wings the wings of the male are well developed.

Dr. Howard said that it was interesting to note that Mr. C.
Schaeffer, during his collecting trip to Brownsville, Texas, last
June and July, was unable to find a single specimen of the
Cotton-boll Weevil (Anthonomus grandis Boheman) . In view
of this, he asked Dr. Morrill, who had visited Brownsville in
the middle of last November, for a statement as to the preva
lence of the weevil in that locality. Dr. Morrill then stated
that in one field examined 75 to 80 per cent, of the cotton
squares showed work of Anthonomus, and, in another, one or
two bolls in every stalk showed that weevils had developed
from them. Dr. Morrill stated that the rainfall at Brownsville
for the past two years (1901 and 1902) has been less than two-
thirds of the normal rainfall for that length of time, and this
would explain why weevils have been less abundant than usual.

Mr. Heidemann exhibited a small collection of Hemiptera,
recently received from Costa Rica, and called attention to a
number of the interesting species represented.

Mr. Warner said that he had just been pinning a collection
of Peruvian insects and noted that they were very fragile.
He did not believe the specimens were insufficiently relaxed but
thought that their brittleness might be due to the high altitude or
the dry climate in which they were collected. Mr. Barber then
remarked that, in his opinion, the brittleness was due rather to

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the manner in which they were collected or the material used in
killing them. Dr. E. C. Van Dyke had mentioned to him the
inadvisability of collecting tiger beetles (Cicindelidae) in cyanide
bottles, as it makes them so brittle that they are easily broken
when handled, and said that it is much better to kill them in
alcohol.

Mr. Currie exhibited a specimen of Bittacus chilensis
Blanchard, a Neuropteroid insect belonging to the family
PanorpidcE. This, with one other specimen of the same species,
is contained in the collection of insects from Chili donated to
the U. S. National Museum by Mr. E. C. Reed. Mr. Currie
stated that this is the largest species of the genus Bittacus of
which he has knowledge, and is of especial interest from the fact
that, as recorded by McLachlan,* Mr. Reed reported having found
it in caves, stating that in other situations it was rare. Dr.
Howard remarked that the specimen exhibited by Mr. Currie is
very probably the same species as that communicated to Mr.
McLachlan by Mr. Reed. Mr. Reed spent many years in Chili,
going first to Valparaiso, then to Santiago ; and finally, owing to
an attack of the coast fever, he had sought a still higher altitude
and gone to Banos cle Cauquenes, where the larger part of his
insect collection was made. Dr. Ashmead said that the Reed
collection of Chilian insects was a valuable one, and he was glad
that the Museum had come into the possession of it.

Mr. Morris mentioned some plans for insect exhibit cases
that have recently been published in the Journal of Microscopy.
In the ensuing discussion of the subject of insect exhibit cases
and insect exhibits Dr. Howard said that, in his opinion, an ex
hibit of insects should not be exposed constantly to light, on
account of the rapid deterioration of specimens that always
results. The most ideal museum, he thought, was that of Dr.
A. B. Meyer, of Dresden. This is only open for two hours a
day, from 1 1 o'clock to i o'clock, and at other times curtains
are drawn so as to exclude the light. Insects should never re
main exposed to the direct rays of the sun. Dr. Gill said he
thought that rare species should not be put on exhibition, but
that an exhibit should be made up of common species and that

*Ent. Monthly Mag., xxx, p. 39, 1894.

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these should be so arranged that they can constantly be seen even
if they do deteriorate from exposure to light.

Mr. Barber stated that Mr. Warner has been making some
insect groups for the National Museum exhibit at the St. Louis
Exposition. One of these groups shows a nest of the common
yellow jacket ( Vespa germanica ). The nest for this group was
dug out by Mr. Warner and himself at PJummer's Island, Mary
land, about the middle of last October. Mr. Warner brought it
to the Museum and while working on it noticed a large number
of peculiar small white scales attached to the outside of the nest,
and called the attention of several persons to them. The opin
ions vouchsafed as to what they might be were so much at vari
ance as to be amusing the cocoon of some Microlepidopteron,
a scale from some plant or grass seed, the anther of some flower,
the egg of some coleopterous, dipterous or hymenopterous para
site, etc., etc. Finally, Mr. Banks called his attention to some
published notes* bearing on this subject. In February, 1861,
Mr. Walker exhibited before the Entomological Society of
London " some very small white pupa cases that were found
attached to wasps' nests. These pupae are finely striated and
their size is so very minute that they might have been mistaken
for eggs if Mr. Smith had not discovered the skin of a larva
inside." Mr. Walker showed also some larvae taken feeding on
the refuse of hornets' nests which Mr. Westwood considered to
belong to the dipterous family Anthomyiidae. Mr. Westwood
stated at a subsequent meeting that the " cocoons" before men
tioned were eggs of a Syrphus fly (genus Volucella) , well known
to live in wasps' nests. Still later he exhibited eggs, pupae and
adults of Vohicella pelluciens Linnaeus from nests of the com
mon wasp. Mr. Barber stated that in Europe several species of
Volucella are known to lay their eggs on wasps' nests and to
live, in the larval state, as scavengers in the nests, feeding on
dead larvae and pupae and refuse from the wasps. He does not
know whether the eggs found by Mr. Warner are those of Vo
lucella or not, but believes that they are. He thinks there are
no published notes on the occurrence of VoluceJla in wasps'
nests in America. Mr. Hubbard, however, found another species

* Proc. Ent. Soc. London, 1861, p. 23; 1862, p. 77; 1865, p. 65.

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of the genus ( Vohicella fasciata Macquart) living as a scav
enger in the prickly pear cactus (Opuntla). To accompany
his notes Mr. Barber exhibited specimens of the adults of the
three North American species of Volucella which may be ex
pected in the vicinity of Washington ( V. evecta Walker, V.
vcsiculosa Fabricius, and V.fasctata Macquart) and a specimen
of the European Volucella bombylans Linnaeus one of those
known to live in wasps' nests. Mr. Barber showed also a num
ber of the supposed eggs of Volucella taken from the Plummer's
Island yellow jackets' nest and, for comparison, some specimens
labeled "eggs of a Syrphid preying upon Pemphigus acerifolii
Riley. No. io6a, Sept. 20, 'Si." He exhibited, further, some
alcoholic specimens of dipterous larvae which had later emerged
from the yellow jackets' nest. These are quite different in ap
pearance from some first stage larvae taken from the eggs before
mentioned and might, Mr, Barber thought, be similar to those
exhibited by Walker, and which Westwood pronounced to be
Anthomyiid larvae.

Mr. Benton then read the following paper :

THE SPECIFIC NAME OF THE COMMON HONEY-BEE.
BY FRANK BENTON.

For nearly 150 years the most commonly used specific name
for our ordinary honey-bee has been mellijica, " honey maker,"
and many hundreds, or I might say, many thousands of books
and articles have been written in which this term has been used.
Practical bee-keepers in rather recent times have discussed very
seriously the question as to whether the honey-bee was a mere
gatherer and carrier of honey, or did actually make honey ; in
other words, whether the finished product as it is placed before
the consumer has been sufficiently changed in the manipulation
given it by the bees to be accurately described as having been
made into honey by the bees themselves.

The use of the specific name mellifera (honey bearer) accent
uated this discussion somewhat, the question seeming to be, in
the minds of many bee-keepers unfamiliar with the laws of zoo
logical nomenclature, merely as to which of the two names
would be the more appropriate. Incidentally it may be remarked
that, as a matter of fact, neither name describes fully the office
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sweets to their hives ; the finished product is very different indeed
from the raw nectar as it is collected, and this change is due to
the manipulation given to the material by the bees themselves.
It consists primarily; in the reduction of the water content from
60 or 75 per cent, to 18 or 20 per cent, of the whole mass ; and,
second, in the addition of formic acid as an antiseptic, and possi
bly also secretions from other glands located in the head of the
bee. The difference between nectar as gathered from the blos
soms or floral glands of plants, and thoroughly ripened honey is
so great that we may safely say the bees make honey from the
nectar.

They are, therefore, bearers and makers. But the discussion
in the apiarian journals as to the relative appropriateness of these
two names was evidently based on a misconception as to how
specific names are given. Finally, to set this matter straight, as
the question seemed to be constantly reappearing, I wrote recently
for one of the technical apiarian journals,* a popular explana
tion of the manner in which scientific names are given, and
quoted the rules of zoological nomenclature applicable to this
case.

The name mellijica was published by Linnaeus himself in
1761, in " Fauna Suecicc" notwithstanding the fact that he
had previously described the honey-bee under the name melli-
fera, in 1758, in the tenth edition of his " Systema Naturce"

These facts were first shown. I believe, by Prof. K. W. von
Dalla Torre, in Vol. X of his " Catalogus Hymenoplerorum"
published in 1896; and since, according to Rule XII of the
Canons of Zoological Nomenclature, " The law of priority be
gins to be operative at the beginning of zoological nomencla
ture," and Rule XIII, " Zoological Nomenclature begins at
1758, the date of the tenth edition of Systema Naturae," the
earlier name mellrfera must take the precedence, without, of
course, any reference to its greater or less fitness. Why Linnaeus
chose to change the name is not apparent. It is possible that,
considering the vast field covered by him and the great number
of scientific names which he gave to plants and animals in his
systematic work, he may have overlooked, in 1761, the fact that
three years before that time he had named and described the
honey-bee. Of course he readily recognized that he had the
same species before him, so it appears more than probable that
he himself thought the term mellijica (honey maker) would be
more appropriate than mellifera (honey bearer). At that time
no law of zoologists interfered with such a change. It was
merely a question as to whether scientific writers would adopt it

* Gleanings in Bee Culture, XXXIT, No. 5, March i, 1904.

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or not. It seems, however, that the adoption was general, and
has for the greater part held since that date. Of course all sys-
tematists will readily see that, as the name mellifera goes back
to 17^8? no older name can possible replace it, and that Linnaeus'
name must remain as the authority for this specific name,
although as a matter of fact a dozen or more writers ( Aldrovandi,
Moufet, Swammerdam, Reaumur, etc.), had used the name
mellifera before 17^8.

In the first and second editions of the work by myself, - pub
lished by the U. S. Department of Agriculture*, I used the
specific name mellijica. The third edition of the publication
cited appeared in 1899. Meanwhile Dalla Torre's " Catalogus"
had been published, so that, upon looking up the references
given by him, I adopted the name mellifera. This was, so far
as I am aware, the first publication of the specific name mellifera
in a practical manual of apiculture. Prof. A. J. Cook, when
about to revise his " Guide to Bee Keeping," made an inquiry of
the U. S. Department of Agriculture as to the reasons for the
change in the specific name of the common honey-bee in the
publications of the Department. This matter was referred to
me and the reasons were given him in full. Thereupon he
adopted, in the edition of his work which appeared in 1900, the
specific name mellifera. This, so far as I am aware, is the
only other work on apiculture which has adopted the name
mellifera. This information he made later the basis of an ex
tended article on the subject which was published in the
" American Bee Journal." f

The Century Dictionary, Webster's International and the New
International, have not yet adopted the name mellifera, while
the Standard Dictionarv gives both mellifera and mellijica,
with a statement that the latter is still in most general use.
Systematic workers, however, specialists in this group of the
Hymenoptera both here and abroad, are quite generally adopting
the name mellifera in place of mellijica in their publications.

Dr. Gill said he regretted that the rules of zoological nomen
clature preclude the retention of mellijica as the name of the
honey-bee, for he agreed with Mr. Benton that it is a better
name than mellifera, and he thought Linnreus showed sound
judgment in substituting it for the latter.

*Bull. No. i, N. S., Div. of Ent., U. S. Dept Agric., "The Honey-
Bee : A Manual of Instruction in Apiculture," ist ed., 1895; 2d ed., 1896.
fVol. 51, No. 24, June 13, 1901, p. 372.

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Dr. Ashmead then presented his " Remarks on Philippine
Hymenoptera." He named some of the collectors who have
sent Philippine insects to the National Museum, mentioning in
particular Father W. A. Stanton, who has lately sent in
especially valuable material in the Hymenoptera. Dr. Ashmead
mentioned some of the works which contain descriptions of
Philippine Hvmenoptera. These are very scattered, and the
occurrence in the Philippines of species found in India and
southeastern Asia, as well as from islands of the Malay Archi
pelago, makes the work of naming Philippine insects very
laborious and difficult. To obviate this he has in preparation a
list of Philippine Hymenoptera.* Dr. Ashmead then exhibited
two boxes of Hymenoptera from the Philippines, and called
attention to a number of species of peculiar interest. He has
found very few new species in the Aculeata, but among the
Parasitica there are a large number. For instance, in the
Proctotrypidae there were formerly no species known from the
Philippines, but he has found one species among some material
recently received by the National Museum. In addition to the
Stanton collections, a number oi valuable specimens have been
received from Miss Clara S. Ludlow.

Dr. Howard asked Dr. Ashmead if any of the Chalcid-fiies
received from the Philippines belong to cosmopolitan species.
Dr. Ashmead replied that none of them do, but this is probably
because none of the species sent him have been reared from
Coccidse. The parasites of Coccidae, as is well known, are
largely cosmopolitan. Mr. Caudell asked Dr. Ashmead if any
Hymenoptera are listed in Casto de Elera's catalogue of Philip
pine insects. Dr. Ashmead replied that there are, but that some
of the records are inaccurate. Dr. Gill stated that this catalogue
is very poor, since in many cases it is not a record of species
actually found in the Philippines, but a list of species which, in
the author's opinion, should or might be found there, and also
those of the museum under the author's care.

Dr. Howard asked Dr. Gill whether the fauna shows that
there is more than one life-zone in the Philippines. Dr. Gill

* Subsequently published in Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., xn, No. i, pp. 1-22,
March, 1904.

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replied that it depends a good deal upon what class of animals
one has reference to. The mammals are decidedly of the
Oriental type, and many species are shared with Indo-China
and the East India islands, but in the highlands have been found
a number of genera (six or more) of muriform rodents peculiar,
so far as known, to Luzon. There are realty no typical repre
sentatives of Australian mammals. The numerous birds exhibit,
on the whole, nearly the same kind of relationship as the
mammals; their distribution has been well studied by the
American naturalists Steere, Bourns and Worcester. The last
relegates the Western Philippines (Palawan and Balabac) to the
Bornean group of islands. The northern and southern islands have
few species of Passerines in common, many genera being repre
sented by analogous species. There is a very slight infusion of the
Australian fauna. The reptiles and amphibians tell the same
storv. The species are quite numerous nearly a hundred rep
tiles and somewhere near thirty amphibians and they are else
where found, mostly in the neighboring archipelago, but quite a
number as far west as India. The peculiar species are relatives
of inhabitants of the same regions. The fresh water fishes are
of the same character, that is, the same as or relatives of
inhabitants of Borneo and other islands of the same group and
India. The terrestrial gastropods tell a different tale. The
hundreds of species are mostly peculiar to the Philippine archi
pelago and a very large proportion belong to genera peculiar to
the islands genera mostly distinguished by a showy hydro-
phanous shell and whose species are mainly arboreal. Other
wise the relations of the species and genera are chiefly with
Indo-Moluccan and Southeastern Asia and India. There is very
slight manifestation of the influence of the Australian fauna.
In fine, the universal testimony is to the effect that the fauna of
the Philippine islands is decidedly related to that of neighboring
Asia and the islands as well as India. In fact, it belongs to the
Oriental realm and is very slightly scarcely at all modified by
Australian elements.

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MARCH 10, 1904.

The iS5th regular meeting was held at the Saengerbund Hall,
314 C Street N.W. Dr. Hopkins presided, and the following
members were present : Messrs. Ashmead, Barber, Benton,
Burke, Busck, Catidell, Currie, Doolittle, Dyar, Fiske, Gill,
Heidemann, Howard, Kotinsky, Morris, Patten, Piper, Schwarz,
Warner and Webb.

Dr. Dyar presented the following notes :

NOTE ON THE LARVA OF THERINA SOMNIARIA HULST.
By HARRISON G. DYAR.

This species has been referred as a variety of T. fervidaria
Hubner, but is really distinct. The characters pointed out by
Hulst are constant. A series of 46 specimens is before me from
Mt. Hope, Oregon (F. Epper), and Gray's Harbor, and Satsop,
Washington (H. E. Burke). Mr. Burke has found the larvae com
mon on oak (Quercus garryana], which adds another distin
guishing character between the forms, since the larvae of T. fer
vidaria are addicted to spruce. I have specimens bred at the De
partment of Agriculture on spruce (Abies balsamca} from King,
Maine, under the number 8698. Mr. Burke brought home a num
ber of the larvae of 7 . somniaria in alcohol. They may be de
scribed as follows :

Larva. Shaped and colored as in the other species of Therina and very
variable. Head wide bilobed, flattish before, clypeus depressed, lobes full,
wider than high; white with sparse gray spots over the lobes, a black
spot on tubercles i and ii; sutures, jaws and ocelli dark. Body moderate,
rather flattened ; light gray, nearly white, smooth. Subdorsal line broad,
white, narrowly dark edged; venter broadly white. Between these
marked variably in black. The lightest form has a faint, double, crinkled
addorsal line, black spots on tubercles i and ii, two black lines represent
ing the edges of an obsolete lateral line with a black bar below tubercle
ii between the subdorsal and lateral lines; spiracles black; two fine black
lines in the subventral area. The dark forms are checkered with black in
large quadrate patches, forming a smaller checkered pattern on the dorsum
and large blotches on the sides.

The pupa is nearly white, thickly spotted with black on the
abdomen and streaked on the cases. The last segment is entirely
black : the cremaster has a few stout hooks.

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Professor Piper stated that Dr. Fletcher reported the larvae of
Therina somnlaria as completely defoliating the oak trees in
portions of Vancouver Island several years ago.*

NOTE ON THE LARVA OF MELANCHROIA GEOMETROIDES

WALKER.

By HARRISON G. DYAR.

Mr. Schwarz brought home from Cuba some larvae of this
species in alcohol, and three moths that he had bred. He found
them toward the end of December on a cultivated plant, Otaheite
gooseberry ( Cicca disticha), at Cayamas, Cuba. They had de
foliated the plant and ate large patches of the bark besides. Mr.
Schwarz fed the larvae that he bred on the bark as there were no
more leaves left. The three moths lack entirely the usual white
dashes on the upper sides of the wings, though one shows a trace
of them below. Gundlach, in Ent. Cubana, records an experi
ence similar to that of Mr. Schwarz of the larvae eating the bark.

I^at'va. Head rounded, full, narrowed a little above, slightly bilobed,
broad; bright red, labrum pale yellow, jaws and ocelli black. Body uni
form, not elongate, equal, central segments about as long as wide, abdom
inal feet on joints 10 and 13, the anal pair with triangular plates; all
feet bright red. Body black, marked with pale yellow; four to six trans
verse dorsal bars on each segment, the central ones longest, the marginal
ones shorter and rounded, separated by a subdorsal area of ground color
from a similar lateral series, the base of which are more confused and
partly confluent. An even, broad, ventral stripe of pale yellow, somewhat
transversely barred on the annulets like the dorsal markings. Tubercles
obscure, concolorous, seta; moderate, black.

NOTE ON THE GENUS LEUCOPHOBETRON DYAR.
By HARRISON G. DYAR.

I proposed this generic term in 1897 for the Cochlidian species
argentijlua Geyer and argyrorrhea Hiibner, but gave no exact
characters. I have now before me two male specimens of argen-
tiflua from Cayamas (E. A. Schwarz), and Santiago, Cuba
(Capt. Wirt Robinson), and give from them the generic charac
ters. In Ent. Cubana, p. 274, Gundlach refers to this species

* Report of Entomologist and Botanist, from Ann. Kept. Experimental
Farms (Canada), for year 1890, pp, 154-188.

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under the genus Euproctis, though he evidently recognized it
was not a Liparid but a Cochlidian. He briefly mentions the
larva as whitish green, furnished with fleshy prolongations. Ob
viously it resembles the larvae of Alarodia and Isochcetes as
would be expected.

$ antennae bipectinated to the tip, the pectinations decreasing out
wardly; head subprominent, palpi curved, slender, just to the frontal
tuft; front trigonate, narrowed below, smooth with the erect hairs of tuft
centrally. Legs long, hairy ; four spurs. Fore wings with costa straight,
veins 2 and 3 separate, cell with short-forked open discal vein, 7 from
apex of cell, 8 to 10 stalked; hind wings with 6 and 7 at apex of cell, 8
anastomosing at base. Form large and robust, otherwise as in Alarodia.

Mr. Caudell exhibited a living male specimen of the rare
cockroach Temnopteryx deropeltiformis Brunner. He reared
this roach from a larva taken last fall at Falls Church, Virginia.
There are known to him but two other instances of the capture
of this species east of Indiana a (j> taken by Mr. Jacob Kotinsky
at Washington, D. C., two years ago, and another ? taken by
Mr. Nathan Banks at Falls Church, Virginia, one year later.
Wasmann* records this as a myrmecophilous insect, his record
being based on specimens sent him by Mr. T. Pergande and col
lected under stones at Cabin John Bridge, Maryland. Not long ago
Mr. Caudell visited this locality with Mr. Pergande and under
stones in exactly similar situations found specimens which Mr.
Pergande pronounced the same as those sent to Wasmann. These
were nymphs and, on maturing, proved to be Ischnoptera uhler-
iana Saussure. Mr. Caudell stated that he had no doubt that
the specimens sent Wasmann are this species and not Temnop
teryx. The specimens of T. deropeltiformis were taken in
decaying wood, and Mr. Caudell said he did not believe that
Temnopteryx had been found in ants' nests. He added that
there are, in the National Museum, specimens of this species
from Texas.

Mr. Caudell mentioned, also, another cockroach new to the
vicinity of Washington Ischnoptera intricata, recently de-

*Kritisches Verzeichniss der Myrmekophilen und Termitophilen Arth-
ropoden, p. 176. Berlin, 1894.

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scribed by Blatchley. It was collected by Mr. Nathan Banks at
Falls Church, Virginia.

Mr. Currie exhibited a handsome and peculiarly marked lace-
wing fly, belonging to the genus Hemerobius and apparently
representing a new species. It was collected by Mr. H. S. Bar
ber at Little River, Humboldt county, California, on the 3ist of
last May. He then presented for publication the two following
papers, in the first of which this insect is described :

NOTES ON SOME HEMEROBIID^ FROM ARIZONA AND
CALIFORNIA.

By ROLI.A P. CURRIE.

During the spring and summer of 1903, Mr. H. S. Barber
visited the western part of Humboldt county, California, in the
interest of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, to investigate
forest insects and make collections. En route he spent a couple
of days at the Grand Canyon of the Colorado river at Bright
Angel, where he collected a number of insects. Although not
looking especially for Hemerobiids he nevertheless secured a few
species five in all from Arizona and California and two of the
California ones appear to be new to science. None of the three
species obtained at Bright Angel are new to Arizona but are in
cluded in Mr. Nathan Banks' recent paper on " Neuropteroid In
sects from Arizona," * although not there listed from this partic
ular locality.

Hemerobius moestus Banks.

Bright Angel, Colorado Canyon, Arizona, altitude 3,700 feet,
jo May, two specimens ; Samoa, Humboldt county, California, 23
May, one specimen.

The California specimen is teneral, both body and wings being
very pale. This species was collected at Williams, Arizona, by
Messrs. Schwarz and Barber on July 29, 1901.

Hemerobius bistrigatus, n. sp.

Alar expanse 15.5 mm. Head, including the antennae, pale yellowish,
the latter darker toward tip; a stripe below each eye, lateral margins of
clypeus, a line surrounding the vertex, rear of eyes, and apical joint of
palpi, piceous. Pronotum dark each side, pale yellowish in the middle
and on posterior lateral angles; meso- and metathorax pale on dor-
sum, obscurely darker on sides and below, metanotum darker than the
mesonotum. Abdomen dark. Legs pale yellowish, tips of tarsi dark.

* Proc. Ent. Soc., Wash , v, No. 4, pp. 237-245, author's extras published
April 29, 1903.

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Anterior wings rather narrow their width slightly more than one-third
their length their tips obtusely pointed, hind margin flattened before
tip; costa flattened apically, making this portion of the costal area nar
row, the basal half rather narrow; hyaline, with a smoky tinge, the veins
pale and marked with minute, indistinct reddish dots ; each wing with two
broad, longitudinal fuscous streaks, as follows: (i) An anterior streak,
arising near base of first radial sector and extending, along this vein to the
hind margin of the wing, widening at inner gradate series so as to include
the second sector and at apex of wing covering the area embraced be
tween the tips of first and third sectors; (2) a posterior streak, arising
obscurely near base of wing and extending along the hind margin out to.
or almost to, the tip of anterior fork of median vein, darkest along its an
terior border which consists of the apical portions of cubitus and of pos
terior fork of median ; posterior fork of median strongly bent toward
cubitus, thus making the inner veinlet connecting it with the cubitus
much shorter than the outer; radio-median cross vein situated at least as
far before the forking of the median as the former is long and joining
radius much before origin of first sector ; forking of median plainly before
origin of first sector; three radial sectors, anterior branch of the third
forked before the inner gradate series and before the subpterostigmal
radial cross vein, posterior branch simple; five gradate veins in inner
series, the last very slightly before the next to the last, seven in outer
series. Posterior wings hyaline with a smoky tinge, the veins as in an
terior pair, a very faint trace of the two streaks of anterior wings; the
first fork of radial sector plainly before forking of median; Pterostigmata
of both wings reddish.

Little River, Humboldt county, California, 31 May, one speci
men.

Type. No. 7901, U. S. National Museum.

Allied to //. mcestus and belonging to the same group and
section, but readily distinguished from it and from other known
species of the genus by the peculiar wing streaks.

Hemerobius pacificus Banks.

Bright Angel, Colorado Canyon, Arizona, altitude 2,300 feet,
10 May, one specimen.

Collected also at Williams, Arizona, May 27, 1901, by Messrs.
Schwarz and Barber.

Hemerobius pallescens, n. sp.

Alar expanse 19.5 mm. Body above and below, including palpi, legs
and antennae, pale yellowish. Head with a stripe below each eye and a
line on lateral margins of vertex piceous, basal antennal joint rufopiceous
externally. Pronotum with a dark stripe each side, leaving a longitudinal
median line and the posterior lateral angles pale. Anterior wings rather
broad their width two-fifths of their length their tips rather acutely

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pointed, hind margin flattened and slightly concave before tip, basal half
of costal area rather narrow; hyaline, with pale brown markings, those in
apical portion of wing more or less coalescent and forming on each gra
date series an oblique streak; pterostigma indistinct, pale; an indistinct
pale line bisects the costal space longitudinally through the bases of inter
costal forks; veins pale, with numerous brown interruptions, those on
radius and cubitus most pronounced ; each brown spot on the longitudi
nal veins between radius and hind margin gives off an oblique pale brown
mark each side, thus forming several series of V-shaped markings, the
angle of the V's pointing inward; gradate veins almost wholly brown ;
hind margin of wing brown, interrupted with pale spots; posterior fork
of median vein strongly bent toward the cubitus, thus making the inner
veinlet connecting it with the cubitus much shorter than the outer ; radio-
median cross vein situated at least as far before the forking of the median
as the former is long and joining radius much before origin of first sector ;
three radial sectors, anterior branch of the third forked before the inner
gradate series and before the subpterostigmal radial cross vein, posterior
branch simple; five gradate veins in inner series, the last beyond the next
to the last, seven or eight in outer series (seven in left wing, eight in
right wing, in the type specimen). Posterior wings hyaline, unmarked;
the veins pale, tinged with reddish brown, some of the gradate veins
darker; the first fork of radial sector plainly before forking of median.

Fieldhrook, Humboldt county, California, 30 May, one speci
men.

Type. No. 7902, U. S. National Museum.

This species, also, is allied to H. pacificus, and falls in the
same group and section of the genus. It differs from pacificus in
its larger size, paler color, broader, more pointed, differently
shaped and differently marked wings, etc.

Micromus variolosus Hagen.

Bright Angel, Colorado Canyon, Arizona, altitude 2,300 feet,
10 May, five specimens.

This is a widely distributed species in Arizona and has been
recorded from Williams, Hot Springs (in Yavapai county), Pres-
cott, Flagstaff, Winslow and the Santa Rita and Chiricahua
Mountains. It is common, also, in other parts of the west.

HEMEROBIID^E FROM THE KOOTENAY DISTRICT OF
BRITISH COLUMBIA.

By ROLLA P. CURRIE.

The Hemerobiid lace-winged flies collected in British Colum
bia last summer by Dr. H. G. Dyar, Mr. A. N. Caudell and
myself comprised twelve species, represented by eighty-six

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specimens. Of the various species obtained, Polystocchotes
punctatus, Hcmerobius pacificus, H. disjunctus and Micromus
montanus appear to be the commonest species, with Hemerobius
mcestus, perhaps, coming next in abundance. The finding of
Hemerobius castanece and Sisyra vicar ia is of interest. It is
rather unfortunate that each of the five new species described in
this paper is represented by a single specimen only ; yet the
characters they exhibit appear to differentiate them well from the
species previously recognized.

I am indebted to Mr. Nathan Banks for the loan of his collec
tion to aid in determining our material, and for helpful sugges
tions.

The four genera represented in the collection may be distin
guished by the key given in Needham's "Aquatic Insects in the
Adirondacks." *

Sisyra vicaria (Walker).

Hemerobius vicarius Walker, Brit. Mus. Cat., Neur., p. 297, 1853.
S\_i'syra] vicaria Hagen, Syn. Neur. N. Am., p. 197, 1861.

u Lilypad Lake," Kaslo, 8 July. Two specimens of this in
teresting little Hemerobiid, whose larvas are known to live para-
sitically on fresh water sponges, were secured on the borders of
a small marshy pond in the forest. This is the first record of the
capture of Sisyra in Western North America. It seems possi
ble that the related genus Climacia, the larvae of which, as dis
covered by Needham, have similar habits, may also some day be
found in the West.

These specimens appear to differ somewhat from examples in
the National Museum labeled vicaria^ yet do not in all respects
agree with Needham's description of umbrata^\ the only other
described North American species. It does not yet appear cer
tain that Needham's and Walker's species are distinct, and a good
series of vicaria from Georgia, the type locality, may be neces
sary to definitely settle the question. These things considered, I
prefer not to describe the two specimens from British Columbia,
perhaps more or less teneral, as representing a new species.

Polystoechotes punctatus (Fabricius).

\_Semblts~\pnjictata Fabricius, Ent. Syst, n, p. 73, 1793.
P{plystoechotes\ punctatus Hagen, Syn. Neur. N. Am., p. 206, 1861.

Kaslo, 12 July to 20 August, 28 specimens ; Robson, 20 Au
gust (Dyar : three specimens) ; Arrow Lake, 21 August (Dyar:

* Bull. N. Y. State Mus., No. 47, p. 551, September, 1901. What Need-
ham, under aa in his key, terms branches of the radial sector are com
monly known simply as radial sectors.

fBull. N. Y. State Museum, No. 47, p. 555, pi. 12, figs. 6 and 7, text
figs. 33, 34 and 36, September, 1901.

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two specimens) ; Sandon (G. C. Robbins : nine specimens). Dr.
Dyar secured, also, two specimens at Victoria on August 24, and
three more at Shawnigan Lake (Vancouver Island) on
September i.

A very abundant species during the latter part of the summer
and commonly attracted to the electric lights. All our specimens
were taken in houses, either flying around the lights, in the even
ing, or, in the daytime, resting on the walls, having flown in the
night before. They exhibit great variation in size, the length
to tip of folded wings ranging from 21 mm. to 34 mm.

Genus HEMJiIROBIUS Linnaeus.

The species of the genus Hemerobius in the collection all be
long to the group having three radial sectors. The following
key may be of assistance in distinguishing them :

KEY TO THE SPECIES OF HEMEROBIUS OF THE KOOTENAY
DISTRICT, B. C.

a Posterior fork of median vein bent toward cubitus, thus making the
inner veinlet connecting it with cubitus shorter than the outer;
radio-median cross vein situated at or before forking of median, and
joining radius at or before origin of first sector; in hind wings first
fork of radial sector plainly before forking of median.
b Radio-median cross vein situated at least as far before forking
of median as the former is long, and joining radius much
before origin of first sector; forking of median plainly before origin
of first sector.

c Pterostigma reddish mcestus

cc Pterostigma not reddish.

d A longitudinal, median, dorsal, pale yellowish stripe on thorax,

or the latter mostly pale yellowish ; anterior branch of third

radial sector forked before inner gradate series, and, nor-

mallv, before subpterostigmal radial cross vein.*

e Wings plainly marked with fuscous on gradate series, apex

and hind margin castanece

ee. Wings but faintly marked with fuscous on gradate series, apex

and hind margin.

/Wings rather broad, obtusely pointed at tip; pterostigma
small and indistinct; spots along radius and cubitus small;
larger species pactjicus

*I apply this term to the inner of the two veins connecting the radius
and its outermost sector and lying more or less in line with the inner
gradate series. The anterior branch of third sector is forked at the sub-
pterostigmal radial cross vein in left fore wing of H. dyart\ type,
but this is undoubtedly abnormal.

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ff "Wings narrow, rather narrowly rounded at tip; pterd-
stigma large and distinct ; spots along radius and cubitus

large; smaller species dyari

dd No dorsal pale stripe on thorax, which is wholly dark except
for a small spot in center of mesonotum ; anterior branch of
third radial sector forked as far out as, or beyond, inner gradate
series and beyond subpterostigmal radial cross \Q,\n..kokaneeanus
bb Radio-median cross vein situated at, or but slightly before, forking
of median, and joining radius at, or but slightly before, origin of
first sector; forking of median not before, but almost directly be
neath, origin of first sector.
c Alar expanse more than 12 mm.; body dark; wings plainly

marked with fuscous.

d Anterior branch of third radial sector forked as far out as, or
beyond, inner gradate series and subpterostigmal radial cross
vein ; last gradate vein of inner series beyond the next to the

last..... caudelli

dd Anterior branch of third radial sector forked before inner

gradate series and subpterostigmal radial cross vein ; last

gradate vein of inner series before the next to the last.g-lactalts

cc Alar expanse less than 12 mm.; body pale; wings very faintly

marked with pale brownish kootenoyensis

aa Posterior fork of median not bent toward cubitus, the inner veinlet
connecting it with cubitus not shorter than the outer; radio-median
cross vein situated beyond forking of median and connecting anterior
fork of the latter with first radial sector; in hind wings first fork of
radial sector beneath, or beyond, forking of median dizjuiictus

Hemerobius moestus Banks.

Hemerobius mcestns Banks, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xxiv, p. 25, Febru
ary, 1897.

Kaslo, 16 June to 8 July, three specimens.

The specimen collected on June 16 seems to be in the teneral
condition, the wing markings being indistinct. The wings
in this specimen are somewhat broader than in the two others.

Hemerobius castaneae Fitch.

H\emerobius\ castanece Fitch, First Rep. Insects N. Y., p. 94. 1856.
H\emerobiu&] castaneae Hagen, Syn. Neur. N. Am., p. 202, 1861.

Kalso, 2 and 24 July, two specimens.

In view of the fact that H. pacificus has been considered as
possibly a western form of this species, it is somewhat of a surprise
to find in our collection examples of what appear to be typi
cal castanece. The ten specimens of pacificus collected in Brit
ish Columbia show no gradation toward castanece and indications
are that these two forms are distinct species.

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Hemerobius pacificus Banks.

Hemerobius pacificus Banks, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xxiv, p. 24, Febru
ary, 1897.

Kaslo, 29 May to 5 August, ten specimens.

Hemerobius dyari, n. sp.

Alar expanse 13 mm. Body above and below, including legs and
antennae, pale yellowish, the latter darker toward tip. Face indistinctly
bordered with darker and with an indistinct line around antennal sockets,
piceous below each eye and on lateral margins and middle of clypeus ;
apical joint of palpi piceous. Pronotum dark each side, leaving a longi
tudinal median pale stripe. Anterior wings rather narrow their width
scarcely more than one-third their length their tips rather narrowly
rounded; basal half of costal area rather narrow; costa flattened almost
concave in the middle, strongly convex above the large pale pterostigma;
smoky hyaline, with pale spots along the longitudinal veins; veins pale,
with indistinct brownish spots most pronounced along the radial sectors
from inner to outer gradate series; hind margin of wing, from middle to
apex, brownish, interrupted with pale spots and with a brownish spot near
base ; radius spotted with dark brown from near base to pterostigma ;
cubitus, also, spotted with dark brown, some of the spots larger than
those on the radius, the largest one covering the basal veinlet connecting
with the posterior fork of the median, and another large one midway be
tween this and the apical connecting veinlet; a large, paler brown spot on
the median above the apical connecting veinlet; posterior fork of median
bent toward cubitus, thus making the inner veinlet connecting it with cu
bitus shorter than the outer; radio-median cross vein situated at least as
far before forking of median as the former is long and joining radius
much before origin of first sector; forking of median plainly before origin
of first sector; three radial sectors, anterior branch of the third forked be
fore inner gradate series (and before subpterostigmal radial cross vein in
right wing of type specimen, at this vein in left wing), posterior branch
simple; five gradate veins in inner series, the last (hindmost) slightly be
yond the next to the last, seven in outer series.* Posterior wings hyaline,
unmarked, the veins wholly pale; first fork of radial sector plainly before
forking of median.

Kaslo, 17 July, one specimen.

Type. No. 7896, U. S. National Museum.

This species tails in Banks' Group II, Section A,f and is allied

*In the outer gradate series I include the outer of the two transverse
veins connecting the radius and the third sector; the inner of these two
transverse veins, however, is not included in the inner gradate series and
is alluded to as the subpterostigmal radial cross vein.

f Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xxiv, p. 24, February, 1897.

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to H. pacificus. It differs from the latter in being of smaller
size, and in having narrower and differently shaped wings, larger
and more distinct pterostigma and larger spots along radius and
cubitus.

Hemerobius kokaneeanus, n. sp.

Alar expanse 14 mm. Body above and below obscure fuscous or pice-
ous; the basal half of antennae, posterior lateral angles of pronotum, a
small spot in center of mesonotum, and the legs mostly, pale. Anterior
wings rather narrow their width less than two-fifths of their length
their tips narrowly rounded, hind margin flattened apically, the basal half
of costal area very narrow; hyaline, tinged with smoky and marked with
fuscous ; veins pale, with scattered brown spots principally where crossed
by the wing markings; these wing markings comprise an irregular, more
or less interrupted band on each gradate series, a large spot on subptero-
stigmal radial cross vein, some spots at fork of median and along cubitus,
hind margin (with the exception of a few pale interruptions), and series
of smaller spots on the longitudinal veins between radius and hind mar
gin; pterostigma indistinct; a pale longitudinal line bisects costal space
through the bases of intercostal forks ; posterior fork of median strongly
bent toward cubitus, making the inner veinlet connecting with cubitus
much shorter than the outer; radio-median cross vein situated at least as
far before the forking of median as the former is long, and joining radius
much before origin of first sector; forking of median plainly before origin
of first sector; three radial sectors, anterior branch of the third forked as
far out as, or beyond, inner gradate series (as far out as inner series in
left wing, and beyond inner series in right wing, in the type specimen)
and beyond subpterostigmal radial cross vein, posterior branch simple;
five gradate veins in inner series, the last before the next to the last, six
or seven in outer series (six in right wing, seven in left, in the type speci
men). Posterior wings hyaline, with a faint smoky tinge, most of the
veins dark, the longitudinals pale at base ; first fork of radial sector plainly
before forking of median.

Kokanee Mountain, altitude 9,000 feet, 10 August, collected
upon snow on glacier : one specimen.

Type. No. 7897, U. S. National Museum.

The venation of this species seems to place it with H. pacifi
cus, H. castanece and H. dyari, except that in these latter three
the anterior branch of the third radial sector is forked before the
inner gradate series and subpterostigmal radial cross vein, while
in H. kokaneeanus it is forked as far out as, or beyond, inner
gradate series and beyond the subpterostigmal radial cross vein.
The wholly dark thorax and the darker and more closely approxi
mated wing markings, however, readily distinguish it from any
of the species just mentioned.

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Hemerobius caudelli, n. sp.

Alar expanse 13.2 mm. Body above and below obscure fuscous or pice-
ous ; the basal half, or more, of antennae, the vertex, hind portion of pro-
notum medially and its posterior lateral angles, meso- and metanotum
medially, and the legs, pale. Anterior wings rather broad their width
two-fifths of their length their tips and hind margin rounded, basal half
of costal area rather broad; hyaline, marked with dark and pale fuscous;
veins pale, with fuscous interruptions principally where crossed by the
wing markings ; these wing markings consist of an irregular, more or less
interrupted band on each gradate series, numerous shorter, irregular,
transverse spots or bands between them and before them to near base of
the wing, numerous short, nearly confluent, transverse spots at apex and
hind margin, and series of transverse pale fuscous spots in costal and anal
areas; a pale longitudinal line bisects costal space through bases of inter
costal forks ; pterostigma indistinct, creamy whitish ; posterior fork of
median somewhat bent toward cubitus, making the inner veinlet connect
ing with cubitus a little shorter than the outer (no inner connecting vein-
let in left wing of type); radio-median cross vein situated a little before
forking of median and joining radius at, or a little before, origin of first
sector (a little before first sector in right wing, at first sector in left wing,
in the type specimen) ; forking of median almost directly beneath origin
of first sector; three radial sectors, anterior branch of the third forked as
far out as, or beyond, inner gradate series and subpterostigmal radial
cross vein (at these in left wing, beyond these in right wing, in the type
specimen), posterior branch simple; four or five gradate veins in inner
series (four in right wing, five in left, in the type), the last beyond the
next to the last, five or six in outer series (five in right wing, six in left,
in the type). Posterior wings hyaline, faintly tinged with smoky on
gradate veins and elsewhere; veins mostly dark, the longitudinals pale at
base; first fork of radial sector plainly before forking of median.

London Hill Mine, Bear Lake, altitude 7,000 feet, 29 July,
collected upon snow ; one specimen.

Type. No. 7898, U. S. National Museum.

This species bears some resemblance to H. kokaneeanus, but
differs from it in the position of the radio-median cross vein and
in the relative position of the forking of the median vein and ori
gin of first radial sector ; it differs, also, in that the vertex and
the meso- and metanotum are largely pale, the wings broader and
more rounded and their markings larger and more extended,
while the last veinlet of inner gradate series is beyond the next to
the last. It belongs in Banks' Group II, Section A, as do all the
other species of Hemerobius in the collection, with the exception
of H. disjunctus.

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Hemerobius glacialis, n. sp.

Alar expanse 15.5 mm. Body above and below obscure fuscous or pice-
ous; basal half of antennae, vertex, a posterior central spot and posterior
lateral angles of pronotum, a broad longitudinal median band on meso-
and metanotum, and the legs principally, pale. Anterior wings rather
broad their width two-fifths of their length their tips? (torn off),
basal half of costal area rather broad; hyaline, tinged with smoky and
marked with fuscous ; veins pale, with scattered brown spots principally
where crossed by the wing markings; these wing markings consist of an
irregular, more or less interrupted band on each gradate series, numerous
short, irregular spots (sometimes tending to form bands) along the longi
tudinal veins, some larger spots at forking of median and along cubitus, a
large spot on subpterostigmal radial cross vein, and some transverse
spots in costal area, these spots pale in basal portion; apex and hind
margin of wing tinged with smoky; pterostigma indistinct; a longitudi
nal pale line bisects costal area at bases of intercostal forks ; posterior
fork of median bent toward cubitus, making the inner veinlet connecting
with cubitus shorter than the outer; radio-median cross vein situated at
the base of fork of median and joining radius at origin of first sector;
forking of median almost directly beneath origin of first sector; three
sectors, anterior branch of the third forked before inner gradate series and
subpterostigmal radial cross vein, posterior branch simple; five gradate
veins in inner series, the last before the next to the last, six in outer series.
Posterior wings hyaline, with a faint smoky tinge, most of the veins
dark except at base; first fork of radial sector plainly before forking of
median.

Kokanee Mountain, altitude 9,000 feet, 10 August, collected
upon snow on glacier ; one specimen.

Type. No. 7899, U. S. National Museum.

This Hemerobiid bears some resemblance to H. kokanceanus
and If. caudelli. It seems to be more closely related to the lat
ter, however, since it substantially agrees with that species in the
position of the radio-median cross vein and the relative position
of the forking of median vein and origin of first radial sector ; like
that species, also, it is pale on the vertex and on the meso- and
metanotum. It differs from H. caudelli in that the last gradate
vein of inner series is before the next to the last, while the ante
rior branch of third radial sector is forked before 4 the inner gradate
series and subpterostigmal radial cross vein ; the wing markings,
also, are smaller and less extended.

Hemerobius kootenayensis, n. sp.

Alar expanse u mm. Body above and below, including legs and anten
nae, pale yellowish, the latter somewhat darker apically ; a stripe below
each eye and the apical joints of palpi piceous ; sides efface tinged with red-

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dish. Anterior wings rather broad their width slightly more than two-
fifths of their length their tips narrowly rounded, almost pointed, hind
margin rounded, basal half of costal space broad; hyaline, faintly tinged
with pale brownish, especially on veins on inner gradate series, at base
and apex of cubital cell, and along hind margin basally; veins pale
yellowish; posterior fork of median bent toward cubitus, making the in
ner veinlet connecting it with cubitus a little shorter than the outer;
radio-median cross vein situated at, or but slightly before, forking of me
dian (at forking of median in left wing, slightly before it in right wing,
in type specimen), and joining radius at origin of first sector; forking of
median almost directly beneath origin of first sector; three sectors (four
in right wing in type specimen, but the fourth forked only once before in
ner gradate series and subpterostigmal radial cross vein), anterior branch
of third (in left wing of this specimen) forked before inner gradate series
and subpterostigmal radial cross vein, posterior branch simple; five gra
date veins on inner series, the last very slightly before the next to the last,
the third from the last and next to the last particularly coinciding, seven
in outer series. Posterior wings hyaline, unmarked, the veins pale yel
lowish ; first fork of radial sector plainly before forking of median.

Kalso, 17 June, one specimen.

Type. No. 7,900, U. S. National Museum.

This diminutive Hemerobius is allied, by venation, to H. cau-
delli and H. glacialis particularly to the latter. The faint,
pale brownish wing markings suggest that the type may be a
freshly emerged specimen and not fully colored. Its size and ap
pearance suggest//", canadensis Banks, but the latter is described
as having the " cubitus [median] not curving toward the postcu-
bitus [cubitus], the connecting veinlets each way about equal,
a connecting veinlet from cubitus [median] to radius before the
origin of the first sector ; four or Jive gradate vein-

lets in outer series," etc. (The bracketed words and italics are
mine.)

Hemerobius disjunctus Banks.

Hemerobius disjunctus Banks, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xxiv, p. 25, Febru
ary, 1897.

Kaslo, 13 June to 20 August, four specimens ; Bear Lake, 29
July, one specimen ; Kokanee Mountain, altitude 9,000 feet, 10
August, collected upon snow on glacier, two specimens ; Revel-
stoke, 14 August (Currie) and 22 August (Dyar), two specimens.

The specimen collected on June 13 is in the teneral condition.

Micromus montanus Hagen.

Micromus montanus Hagen, Proc. Bost, Soc. Nat. Hist., xxiu, p. 279,
September, 1886.

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Kaslo, ii June to 5 August, four specimens ; Ainsworth, n
July, two specimens ; Kokanee Mountain, altitude 8,000 feet, 10
August, one specimen.

The specimen collected on June 11 is teneral.

The two following papers were read by title :

NEW DIPTERA FROM CENTRAL AMERICA.
By D. W. COQUILLETT.

In the month of August, 1903, Prof. Carl F. Baker, of Pomona
College, Claremont, California, donated to the National Museum
a duplicate series and the unique specimens of Diptera collected
by himself during a trip through Mexico and Central America,
the only conditions being that the writer would engage to iden
tify the specimens and publish descriptions of the new forms.
The task of identifying and describing having now been com
pleted, the descriptions are offered herewith :

Family CHIRONOMIDy^E.
Ceratopogon terminalis, n. sp.

Black, the legs yellow, the hind tibue and their tarsi except their bases
brown (antennae, front tarsi, and middle tibiae and their tarsi wanting) ;
eyes rather widely separated, head and body polished, mesonotum some
what scabrous, its hairs whitish ; legs slender, devoid of spines, outer side
of hind tibiae and upper side of their tarsi fringed with rather long hairs,
first joint of hind tarsi nearly twice as long as the second; wings very
long and narrow, bare, whitish hyaline, the broad apex brown, apex of
third vein near nine-tenths of the length of the wing, this vein wholly
separated from the first vein and from the costa, not connected by a cross-
vein ; apex of first vein near one-fourth of the length of the third ; veins
whitish, the third vein, small cross-vein and last section of the costa
brown, fourth vein forks slightly before the small cross-vein. Length
3 mm.

A female specimen from San Marcos, Nicaragua.
Type. No. 7807, U. S. National Museum.

Family MYCETOPHILIDyE.

Sciara trifasciata, n. sp.

Yellow, the front, upper part of the occiput, a pair of elongate-oblong
spots on the mesonotum, the knobs of the halteres and the second, third
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the first two, black; the antennae and tarsi except their bases brown;
head rounded, lostrum broader than long; body somewhat polished;
wings hyaline, apex of first vein considerably before the forking of the
fourth, lower end of the small cross-vein before the forking of the fifth
vein. Length 2.5 mm.

A female specimen from San Marcos, Nicaragua.
Type. No. 7792, U. S. National Museum.

Family BIBIONID^.

Dilophus fumosus, n. sp.

Black, the front coxae, and the front and middle femora, except their ex
treme ends, yellow (hind femora, tibiae and tarsi wanting); hairs black;
rostrum narrow and elongate, longer than the eyes, the antennas inserted
at one-fourth of the distance from the base; front tibiae bearing a pair of
spines on the posterior side at one-third length of tibiae, an oblique row
of four spines at the middle and a row at the apex; wings pale brown, the
costal cell and stigma dark brown. Length 6 mm.

A male specimen from Granada, Nicaragua.
Type. No. 7793, U. S. National Museum.

Dilophus rhynchops, n. sp.

Black, the first antennal joint, front coxae, their trochanters and femora,
also basal half of hind femora, yellow (middle legs wanting): hairs black;
rostrum about as long as the eyes, antennae inserted at one-fifth of its
length; body polished; spines of front tibiae as in fumosus; wings hya
line, costal cell smoky, stigma brown. Length 3 mm.

A male specimen from Granada, Nicaragua.
Type. No. 7794, U. S. National Museum.

Family THEREVID^.
Psilocephala pruinosa, n. sp.

Black, the first two joints of antennae, the halteres, femora, tibiae and
base of tarsi, yellow, venter of abdomen except at base, and the geni-
talia, reddish yellow, frontal triangle and face whitish pruinose, the
tubercle above the antennas and pair of tubercles below them polished ;
first joint of antennae rather slender, slightly longer than the other
two taken together; thorax gray pruinose, scutellum at base velvet
black, the remainder gray pruinose, bearing four bristles; abdomen dor-
sally silvery-white pruinose, prolonged ventrally at the hind angles of
the second and third segments, the broad hind margins of these segments
white, hairs of abdomen and pleura chiefly white; wings hyaline, the
base and costal cell yellowish, a brown cloud in base of first posterior cell
and on cross-vein at base of the second, a large, indeterminate brownish

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cloud near apex of wing, extending from slightly before apex of second
vein to middle of second submarginal cell; fourth posterior cell closed
and rather long petiolate. Length 6 mm.

A male specimen from Granada, Nicaragua.
Type. No. 7795, U. S. National Museum.

Family CONOPID^.
Conops pallifrons, n. sp.

Head yellow, occiput, except the upper and lower part and the sides on
the lower half, black, front at insertion of antennae narrowly margined
with brown, a brownish streak below each eye in the male; antennae red
dish, the upper edge of the third joint and greater part of the second,
black, the second joint subequal in length to the third; proboscis about
one and one-half times as long as the head, reddish, the ends black;
thorax black, a golden-yellow pruinose spot borders each humerus on the
inner side, pleura crossed in front of middle coxae by a yellowish pruinose
band of well-defined outlines, a yellow pruinose spot on the hypopleura;
abdomen black, sides of the second segment in the male reddish, broad
base of the third yellow, second segment narrow, with nearly parallel
sides, slightly longer than the third in the male, apices of male genitalia
yellow; wings brown from costa to third vein, also along the third vein in
first posterior cell and along fifth vein in discal cell except toward
its apex, remainder of wings hyaline; halteres yellow; legs reddish
brown, broad bases of tibiae yellowish-white, tarsi and hind femora chiefly
black. Length 6 to 8 mm.

A specimen of each sex from Chiuandega and San Marcos,
Nicaragua. Also a male collected at San Rafael, Vera Cruz,
Mexico, July 3, by Mr. C. H. T. Townsend.
Type. No. 7796, U. S. National Museum.

Family TACHINID^E.
Paradidyma orbitalis, n. sp.

Black, the second joint of antennae and broad base of the third, also the
palpi and apex of proboscis, yellow ; vertex one and one-half times as wide
as either eye, one pair of orbital bristles, frontals descending nearly to
the arista, a row of bristles extends from the lowest frontal just outside of
the facial ridges to lower end of eyes, becoming stouter toward the lower
end of the row, vibrissse on a level with front edge of oral margin, two
bristles above each ; eyes bare, antennae as long as the face, the third joint
about eight times as long as the second, arista thickened on the basal
three- fifths, the penultimate joint as broad as long; face in profile strongly
convex except on the lowest fifth, cheeks one-third as wide as the eye-
height; mesonotum grayish pruinose and with two broad black vittae,
three pairs of postsutural dorsocentral bristles, two sternopleurals, scu-

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telluni bearing three marginal pairs; abdomen polished, narrow bases of
last three segments whitish pruinose, these segments bearing only mar
ginal bristles ; fifth joint of front tarsi not compressed, of nearly an equal
width, front pulvilli very short; wings hyaline, third vein bristly almost
to small cross-vein, the others bare, first posterior cell short-petiolate.
Length 4 mm.

A male specimen from Chinandega, Nicaragua.
Type. No. 7797, U. S. National Museum.

Hypostena gracilis, n. ,sp.

Black, the face, cheeks, first two joints of antennae and broad base of the
third, first three abdominal segments except a dorsal vitta and the base of
the first dorsally and apex of the third, also the coxag, femora and tibiae,
yellow, the femora and tibiae tinged with brown; vertex about one-third
as wide as either eye, frontals descending slightly below base of second
antennal joint, antennae four-fifths as long as the face, the third joint only
slightly longer than the second, arista thickened on the basal third, the
penultimate joint, slightly longer than broad; vibrissae on a level with
front edge of oral margin, two bristles above each, face strongly retreating,
concave, the cheeks one-fifth as wide as the eye-height, no orbital bristles ;
thorax yellowish-gray pruinose, mesonotum marked with four black vittae,
three sternopleural bristles; abdome,n yellowish pruinose, apices of the
first three segments polished, second and third segments bearing only
marginal bristles, the fourth with a marginal and a submarginal row;
front tibiae subequal in length to the first three joints of their tarsi, pul
villi greatly elongated; wings hyaline, third vein bearing two bristles
near the base. Length 6 mm.

A male specimen from Chinandega, Nicaragua.
Type. No. 7798, U. S. National Museum.

Family HETERONEURID^.*
Chaetoclusia, n. gen.

Near Heteromeringria but the first vein bristly on the apical three-fifths,
etc. Two pairs of vertical bristles, three of orbitals, ocellars minute, no
postverticals, no bristles on the frontal vitta. vibrissae stout, antennae
short, porrect, third joint sub-orbicular, somewhat longer than the second,
arista subapical. densely short-plumose, eyes oblique, nearly twice as
high as long, cheeks about one-twelfth as wide as the eye-height, face
perpendicular, proboscis short and robust, palpi well developed; thorax
bearing two pairs of dorsocentral bristles, two pairs of supra-alar, one
humeral, two posthumeral, one mesopleural and one sternopleural, scu-

* The new name Clusiodes is hereby proposed for Heteroneura Fallen
(Agromyzides Sueciae, 1823) which is preoccupied by Heteroneura Fallen
(Spec. Ent. Dipt. Exhib., 1810). the Utter a synonym of Ca llomyia Me igen
(1804) in the family Platypezid;e.

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tellum bearing a subapical pair and a pair of very short bristles in front
of them; tibiae without preapical bristles; auxiliary vein distinct but
extending rather close to the first, costa not spined, extending slightly
beyond apex of third vein, hind cross-vein about its own length beyond
the small, first posterior cell not narrowed outwardly, second basal cell
separated from the discal, anal cell complete, rounded at its apex, sixth
vein not reaching the wing-margin.

Type : The following species :
Chaetoclusia bakeri, n. sp.

Head and its members yellow, polished, the antennal arista and anocel-
lar dot black, a brownish spot on outer side of third antennal joint; thorax
yellow, sides of mesonotum black, prolonged downward in front of and
behind each wing, and inward at each end of the mesonotum, the two ends
connected by a second black vitta; scutellum yellow, the sides at base
brownish; abdomen black, the extreme base, a pair of spots at bases of
segments four to six, the genitalia and venter, yellow; legs yellow, basal
half of middle or hind tibiae usually brownish, femora devoid of bristles,
middle tibiae bearing a stout apical spur on the inner side and an apical
bristle on the outer side; wings hyaline, apex brownish, this color extend
ing to middle of last section of third vein, an indistinct brownish cloud
covering the small and hind cross-veins, last section of fourth vein about
seven times as long as the preceding section; halteres yellow; all hairs
and bristles yellowish. Length 4 mm.

Two male and two female specimens from Chinandega and
Granada, Nicaragua.

Type. No,. 7799, U. S. National Museum.

Family SAPROMYZIDyE.
Sapromyza varia, n. sp.

Black, the antennae and sides efface yellowish brown, broad hind mar
gins of the abdominal segments and middle of the first one yellow, the
halteres, tibiae and tarsi except apices of the latter whitish, all hairs and
bristles black; head opaque, grayish pruinose. a velvet black spot near
middle of each cheek, contiguous to the eye, third joint of antennae elon
gate oval, artista long-plumose; thorax opaque, gray pruinose, marked
with four brown vittae, the outer pair interrupted at the suture; abdomen
polished, the broad hind margins of the first four segments thinly grayish
pruinose, the fifth segment with four gray pruinose spots; wings grayish
hyaline. Length 4 mm.

A single specimen from Chinandega, Nicaragua.
Type. No. 7800, U. S. National Museum.

Sapromyza albipes, n. sp.

Head yellowish, the face, cheeks, sides of occiput and the mouth parts
whitish, center of occiput brown, frontal vitta bordered with brown, a

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velvet black spot at each lower corner of the front ; antennae on the two
basal joints brown, the third joint yellow, elongate oval, arista very long-
plumose; body black, pleura tinged with yellow, apex of scutellum, base
of abdomen and greater part of the genitalia, yellow; thorax bluish gray
pruinose and marked with three brown vittai : abdomen polished, a pair
of lateral, gray pruinose spots on each segment ; legs and halteres whitish ;
wings hyaline, hind cross-vein broadly bordered with brown, last section
of fourth vein five times as long as the preceding section. Length 2 mm.

A male specimen from Granada, Nicaragua.
Type. No. 7801, U. S. National Museum.

Sapromyza triseriata, n. sp.

Yellow, the last four abdominal segments each marked with three black
dots, the hairs and bristles black. Third joint of antennae noticeably
longer than wide, arista pubescent. Thorax yellowish pruinose, the
scutellum and abdomen polished. Wings grayish hyaline, unmarked.
Length 2 mm.

A single specimen from Chinandega. Nicaragua.
Type. No. 7937, U. S. National Museum.

Family ORTALIDyE.
Euxesta juncta, n. sp.

Head and its members yellow, the occiput except the lower edge, also
the sides of the vertex and an ocellar dot, dark green, the hairs and
bristles as also the antennal arista, black ; thorax dark green, mesonotum
grayish pruinose; scutellum yellow; abdomen dark green, the first two
segments and base of the third yellow; legs yellow; wings whitish hya
line, marked with four brown cross bands, the first two are isolated, the
other two are narrowly connected along the costa and again by an oblique
streak near the middle of the first posterior cell; the first band is on a
line with the humeral cross-vein, the second is very broad and passes just
before the small cross-vein, the third passes over the hind cross-vein,
while the fourth band borders the apex of the wing to slightly below
apex of fourth vein; halteres yellow. Length 3 mm.

A male specimen from Granada, Nicaragua.
7\pe. No. 7802, U. S. National Museum.

Euxesta fenestrata, n. sp.

Head yellow, the occiput except middle of upper part and the lower
edge, also the sides of the vertex and an oceilar dot, greenish black; an
tennae and mouth parts yellow, the labella brown; thorax dark green,
humeri reddish, scutellum yellow, abdomen reddish yellow, metallic, the
ovipositor blackish; legs, including the coxae, yellow; wings brown, the
base to proximal end of discal cell whitish hyaline except a brown cross-
band on a line with the humeral cross-vein, a. whitish, subtriangular spot

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extends from costa just beyond apex of first vein to the discal cell just be
yond the small cross vein, a round spot of the same color in the submar-
ginal cell near its middle, crossing this cell and encroaching slightly on
the marginal cell, a smaller round spot in the first posterior cell slightly
before the hind cross-vein, a subtriangular spot crosses the second poster
ior cell at its middle and extends a short distance into the first posterior
cell ; finally a similar spot crosses the third posterior cell a short distance
before its apex and extends over half way across the discal cell; halteres
light yellow. Length nearly 3 mm.

A female specimen from Champerico, Guatemala.
Type. No. 7803. U. S. National Museum.

Family TRYPETID^.
Icterica apicalis, n. sp.

Head yellow, frontal vitta reddish yellow, hairs and bristles black, the
hairs on the front and a row of flattened bristles around upper half of oc
ciput, also a pair in front of the vertical bristles yellowish white; body
dark reddish yellow (apparently injured by moisture) varied with lighter
yellow, the last segment of the abdomen chiefly black; scutellum bearing
four bristles; legs reddish yellow, the tibiae and tarsi lighter j'ellow;
wings narrow, of nearly a uniform width, dark brown, the central portion
from base of discal cell to slightly beyond its apex marked with about 34
yellow dots and small round spots, a yellow streak extends from apex of
first vein obliquely into the submarginal cell, a second yellow streak ex
tends from the extreme base of the wing through the anal and lower edge
of the second basal cell and into the bases of the discal and third poster
ior cells, enclosing a brown spot in the discal cell and cutting off a second
brown spot in the upper corner of this cell; the yellow coloring is pro
longed as a narrow, interrupted border to the fourth vein nearly to the
apex of the discal cell; extreme apex of wing and four drops along the
hind margin whitish hyaline, that at the apex with the inner edge almost
straight, extending from about midway between apices of the second and
third veins to a short distance below apex of fourth vein ; of the four
hyaline drops along the hind margin of the wing, one is near the middle
of the axillary cell, one is at the lower corner and a second is above the
middle of the third posterior cell, while the fourth is below the middle of
the second posterior cell; of the yellow dots and spots mentioned, only
two are in the second posterior cell, situated near its inner upper angle,
while the third posterior cell contains only one, situated slightly beyond
and above the middle of the cell ; halteres yellow. Length 5 mm.

A male specimen from San Marcos, Nicaragua.
Type, NO. 7^04, U. S f National Museum.

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Family EPHYDRID^.
Notiphila frontalis, n. sp.

Black, the palpi, third joint of antennae except the upper edge, knees,
last two pairs of tarsi and the halteres, yellow; front yellowish-gray prui-
nose and with a pair of broad, velvet-black vittse which converge toward
their lower ends which are as widely separated as the antennae, face
golden-j'ellow pruinose; thorax yellowish-gray pruinose, a brown vitta
above middle of pleura and five on the mesonotum, the median three
forked near the middle, the forks united, three and three, at the posterior
end of the thorax ; scutellum yellowish-gray pruinose and marked with
four brown vittae; abdomen olive-gray pruinose, segments two to five
each marked with a pair of subtriangular black spots which cross the seg
ment near its middle and at its base are prolonged to the lateral margin ;
wings hyaline. Length 2 mm.

Three specimens from Managua and Granada, Nicaragua.
Type. No. 7805, U. S. National Museum.

Family GEOMYZID^.
Scutops, n. gen.

Near Opomyza, but the antennal arista is very long plumose, the face
subtrigonate, no dorsocentral bristles on the thorax in front of the suture,
etc. Head longest along the under side, front wider than long, bearing
two pairs of vertical bristles and one pair each of postvertical. ocellar and
orbital bristles ; face somewhat shield shaped, hollowed out in the middle
and elevated into a low ridge on each side and around the narrowed lower
end, no vibrissas ; antennae not quite reaching middle of face, the first
joint very short, the second rather long and broad, the third slightly
longer but narrower than the second, somewhat pointed at the apex, the
arista dorsal, inserted near the base of the third joint, sparsely but very
long plumose (nearly as in Drosophild} ; eyes reniform, over twice as
high as long ; cheeks about one-tenth as wide as the eye-height ; proboscis
short and robust, palpi spatulate; occiput strongly concave. Thorax
bearing two pairs of dorsocentral bristles, two supra-alar, two posthum-
eral, one humeral, one sternopleural, pleura otherwise devoid of bristles,
scutellum bearing four. Auxiliary vein absent except toward its base ;
second basal and anal cells large, sixth vein prolonged almost to the
wing-margin, anal angle of wings strongly developed. Tibiae devoid of
preapical bristles.

Type : The following species :
Scutops fascipennis, n. sp.

Yellow, apices of palpi, two broad vittae on the mesonotum, the meta-
notum except the sides, the abdomen and two interrupted bands on each
tibia, black; the face, a vitta along the hind margin of each eye and one

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extending from each humerus to the wing densely white pruinose, body
elsewhere and the front polished, the mesonotum somewhat scabrous;
hind margin of wings broadly grayish hyaline, base of the remainder yel
lowish, changing to brown outwardly, a white fascia crosses the wing mid
way between the hind cross-vein and the tip of the wing, the latter nar
rowly bordered with whitish ; second vein extending rather close to the
first and to the costa. Length, 3 mm.

Three specimens from Chinandega, Nicaragua.
Type. No. 7806, U. S. National Museum.

Family OSCINID^E.
Chlorops capillata, n. sp.

Yellow, the upper apical angle of the third antennal joint, an ocellar
dot, a dot behind and another below each humerus, black, apices of tarsi
brown, mesonotum marked with three reddish yellow vittae, antennal arista
except at base white. Front rather strongly produced forward, frontal
triangle polished, almost wholly covered with short hairs, without a
median furrow, unusually broad, the sides strongly convex, extending to
lower edge of the front where they form a blunt point; third joint of
antennae slightly longer than wide, the upper edge concave, the lower
convex, the apex bluntly rounded; cheeks about one-fifth as wide as the
eye-height. Body somewhat polished, not pruinose, the scutellum con
vex above. Wings hyaline, third and fourth veins diverging, hind cross-
vein nearly three times its length beyond the small. Length 2 to 3 mm.

Three specimens. Granada, Nicaragua ; Georgia, and North
Carolina ; the specimens from the two last-mentioned localities
were collected by H. K. Morrison.

Type. No. 7938, U. S. National Museum.

SOME NEW OSMUND IN THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL

MUSEUM.

BY E. S. G. TITUS.
Ashmeadiella schwarzi, n. sp.

9. Length 5 mm. Black, clothed with white pubescence, punctuation
very dense and regular, more separate on thorax dorsally. Head, except
occiput, densely clothed with long pubescence, thorax bare discally, scu
tellum with sparse pubescence, abdominal fascise regular and distinct, last
segment with fine short hair. Legs with exceptionally sparse pubescence,
tarsi slightly fuscous; mandibles tipped with red.

$. 3.5-4.5 mm. Closely resembles the female, more stoutly built;
tarsi, especially claw-joint, and claws fuscous. Apical abdominal teeth all
short, the lateral teeth sharp, middle teeth rounded; all the teeth are

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ferruginous and the color extends back of the lateral teeth onto the seg
ment for a very short distance. Red color on the mandibles extending
over a greater area than in female.

Hab. 9, Chiricahua Mts., Ariz., May 30 (H. G. Hubbard) ;
^, Catalina Springs,, Ariz., April 14 (Hubbard and Schwarz) ;
Ariz., 2546, Baker collection ; " Tucson, Ariz., June 10,

1897 (R. E. Kunze)."

7VM-9

and d% No. 6855, U. S. National Museum.
Ashmeadiella coquilletti, n. sp.

9- Length 7.5 mm. Black, head very large, punctures dense and of
medium size on head and thorax, finer and closer on abdomen. Cheeks,
sides of face, pleura, legs (except tarsi beneath), with white pubescence.
Remainder of pubescence dull ochraceous, rather pale on bands of abdo
men and ventral scopa. Punctures of clypeus very close, apical margin
faintly crenulate; flagellum black, faintly fuscous beneath; mandibles
black with a red band back of teeth, tegulse black with a ferruginous spot,
nervures and stigma all dark; claws reddish; second recurrent nervure
not quite reaching to tip of second submarginal cell.

<3\ Length 8 mm. Closely resembles the female. Pubescence of face
denser and all white; of occiput and mesothorax very sparse, of meta-
thorax dense and ochraceous ; sides of thorax with dense white pubescence,
bands on abdomen very distinct. Mandibles black, except for a red spot
above near base; front tarsi fuscous, middle and hind tarsi faintly colored,
especially beneath; spurs black. Lateral teeth at apex of abdomen short
and pointed, middle teeth long, narrow, and rounded at tips; last dorsal
segment with scattered white pubescence. Abdominal bands on segments
2 and 3 continued on venter.

Hab. 9, San Diego Co., California, August 26, 1891 (collec
tion W. J. Fox) ; JS San Diego Co., California (D. W.
Coquillett) .

Type. No. 6877, U. S. National Museum,

Ashmeadiella rufipes, n. sp.

9- Length 7.5 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen black, front legs
black suffused with red; middle femora and hind legs red, hind tarsi with
sparse black markings; tegulce ferruginous in front, black behind; ner
vures black except for a short distance near base where they are reddish-
yellow; mandibles broad, very dark, tinged with red above and clothed
with white hair. Pubescence rather dense and white, especially on cly
peus. Thoracic disk almost bare. Punctuation dense on head, more
separate on thorax dorsally, and fine and dense on abdomen.

Hab. San Diego Co., California, August 30, 1891 (D. W.
Coquillett).

Type. No. 6861, U. S. National Museum.

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Very much resembles the preceding species, but readily separ
ated by the color of pubescence and legs.

Ashmeadiella curriei, n. sp.

9- Length 5.5 mm. Black, rather stout, closely finely punctured.
Pubescence of face (except sides), clypeus, occiput, thoracic dorsum, tibiae
and tarsi ochraceous ; of sides of face, cheeks, pleura, thorax beneath^
femora, abdominal bands and ventral scopa white, mandibles sparsely
fringed with long yellow hairs. Antennae short, jet black, clypeus at apex
faintly emarginate, fringed with very short white pubescence, two outer
mandibular teeth ferruginous, claws and claw joints of tarsi ferruginous ;
tegulae punctured, black with a faint reddish tinge, nervures and stigma
black, second marginal narrowed fully one-half above, second recurrent
nervure reaching second submarginal cell one-fifth length of cell from tip ;
tibial spurs black. .

Hab. Kaslo, British Columbia, June u, 1903 (R. P. Currie).

Type. No. 6876, U. S. National Museum.

May be separated from A. prosopidis Ckll., A. cactorum Ckll.
and A. mcliloti Ckll., by the absence of white pubescence on the
clypeus and thoracic dorsum, lack of red on legs and from all but
A. prosopidis by its size.

Ashmeadiella gillettei, n. sp.

9- Length 6-7 mm. Stout, but not as broad as A. caUfonrica Ashm.
Densely, finely punctured. Head and thorax black, mandibles black with
faintly reddish tips, flagellum ferruginous beneath; claw-joint and claws
of all the legs reddish, -middle and hind femora reddish, sometimes with
some black, hind tibiae reddish on inside. Abdomen black with first dor
sal segment red excepting an irregular transverse blotch in center near hind
margin, second segment red at sides and a third of the way toward the
middle, third segment with a small red space on each side. Pubescence
white, dense on face, cheeks and thorax, except disk, where it is present,
but sparse and short. Ventral scopa and all the tarsi, beneath, with
ochraceous pubescence, bands on abdomen very distinct, last dorsal seg
ment with fine, short hairs; tibial spurs black; tegulae pale yellow with
an anterior black spot.

Hab. Ft. Collins, Colorado, June 8 and 20, 1900 (Titus).

7yfle.No. 6880, U. S. National Museum.

Cotype in Colorado Agricultural College Museum. Three
specimens.

There is in the National Museum collection a headless female
from La Mesa, San Diego Co., California, 21 April, 1898 (L. O.
Howard), that very closely resembles this species ; the legs, how
ever, are blacker and the 5th dorsal abdominal segment is also
densely clothed with fine white pubescence.

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Hoplitis sambuci, n. sp.

9' Length 8.5 mm. Black, abdomen shining black; stout, head fully
as wide as thorax, strongly produced behind the eyes. Punctuation dense
and exceedingly regular over the entire insect, including femora and tibiae.
Pubescence varying from gray to white. Pubescence dense on face,
cheeks, scutellum, and sides of thorax, very sparse on occiput and thoracic
disc. Front legs with rather dense pubescence, that on middle and hind
legs shorter and sparser. Dorsal abdominal segments 1-5 with snow-white
apical hair bands broadly interrupted (rubbed?) in the middle, 6th seg
ment with short white pubescence. Ventral scopa dense and white. An
tennae black, scape somewhat enlarged, mandibles jet black, grooved
externally, with three teeth, the outer one slightly longer and more
pointed, the second and third separated by a shallow curve; clypeus
truncate ; tibial spurs black, spine at apex of front tibia strongly produced.
Labial palpi four jointed, second joint i^ times as long as first, first two
joints very slender, third and fourth stout subequal, maxillary palpi five-
jointed, first stout and globular, third longest, equal to 4 -j- 5, two and
four subequal, five slender, short.

(j\ Length 8.5 mm. Black, closely resembling female, facial pubes
cence whiter and denser, thoracic pubescence cinereous and dense ; abdom
inal bands present on segments 1-6, interrupted in the middle, sixth seg
ment narrowly ferruginous apically, dentate laterally; seventh segment
truncate, broad, curving laterally to its base; sides of abdomen and last
segment fringed with long, white pubescence; ventral segments neither
enlarged or toothed. Antennae black, flagellum brown beneath, all the
rlagellar joints strongly crenulated, last joint hooked.

Hab. Pullman, Wash., 299 (May 7); tf (May 14); all
reared from stems ofaSam&ucus glauca, by C. V. Piper.

Type. No. 6S6o, U. S. National Museum.

I have examined the type species of the genus Hoplitis King
( Osmiaadunca L.) and feel sure that this species and Alcidamea
truncata Cress, belong therein. It can be readily separated from
A. truncata by size, form, and pubescence. The antennae in
Hoplitis are quite varied, but the majority of species have de
formed antennae.

Acanthosmiades ashmeadii, n. sp.

<j\ Length 10 mm. Head and thorax dull blue, abdomen shining
steel-blue. Head and thorax disproportionately large lor the abdomen,
head as wide as thorax, abdomen slender. Punctuation confluent on head
and thorax, dense and fine on abdomen. Pubescence of face, cheeks,
occiput, borders of thoracic dorsum, and sides of thorax dull white in some
places discolored with vellow, of abdomen very sparse, but where occur
ring is short and black; on dorsal segments 3-6 it can be plainly seen
from the side, beneath the sides of the abdomen are fringed with black

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hairs. Antennae bicolored, scape black, flagellum pale testaceous, except
ing a black tip to the flattened last joint; mandibles black; outer tooth
long and sharp; tegula; blue with a large fuscous spot; wings hyaline,
nervures and stigma black; legs very stout, front and middle pairs blue-
black with fuscous tarsi, hind pair brownish-black, tarsi fuscous, hind
femora swollen at base, hind tibiae very large, greatly swollen in the mid
dle beneath, first hind tarsal joint swollen at base, tibial spurs large and
black; sixth dorsal abdominal segment entire, not broadly rounded,
seventh segment deeply bidentate ; first ventral segment with a longitud
inal central apical carina, testaceous in color, second segment with a tes
taceous strongly produced finger-like process, remainder of segment pol
ished and blue.

Hab. Dalles, Oregon (collection W. H. Asbmead).

Type. No. 6859, 0. S. National Museum.

Tbis can be readily separated from A. odontogaster (Ckll.), by
the antenna?, larger size, more strongly produced legs, and deeper
color. In A. odontogaster there is a fine longitudinal groove on
the second ventral segment which ends on the finger-like process,
causing it to appear bifid at the tip ; the first segment has no lon
gitudinal carina.

Mr. Benton exhibited a photograph from life, published in
a recent number of an apicultural journal* labeled " Bees work
ing on Chrysanthemums." An examination of the picture showed
him that the tc bees," so-called, are in reality drone flies (Eris-
talis tenax}. It is well-known that these Syrphid flies have a
habit of visiting chrysanthemums to feed upon the pollen, and
this fly has been credited with effecting, to a greater or less de
gree, the fertilization of these blossoms. The plan of introduc
ing it into countries where chrysanthemums do not seed has been
seriously discussed. Drone flies have frequently been mistaken
for bees. At the famous Utter trialf Mr. Benton, who was a
witness for the National Bee-Keepers' Association, brought with
him a small case of insects containing workers, queens and drones
of Apis mcllifcra and a number of drone flies. This case, when
passed around, revealed the fact that the prosecution were unable
to distinguish drone flies from bees with certainty, and therefore
unable to prove positively that bees were the cause of the alleged
damage. Even some of the skilled bee-keepers, to whom the

*The American Bee-Keeper, xiv, No. 3, p. 52, March, 1904.
f Described in Gleanings in Bee Culture for 1900 and H;OI.

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case of insects was shown privately before the trial, made mis
takes in some instances in endeavoring to tell which were bees
and which flies.

Dr. Dyar presented the following paper :

ADDITIONS TO THE LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN LEPI-
DOPTERA, No. 2.

By HARRISON G. DYAR.
Family RIODINID^E.
Apodemia hepburni Godman and Salvin.

Mr. Oslar sent me a pair which he took in the Patagonia
Mountains, Arizona. The male agrees with the description in
the Biologia Centrali-Americana, but is rather smaller than the
figure. The female has more white spots than the male. The
form comes extremely close to palmerii Edw., which I at first
thought it to be, till Mr. Oslar called my attention to the differ
ence.

Family NOCTUID^.

Hadena multicolor, n. sp.

Thorax blackish brown, lighter centrally, collar whitish in front; ab
domen brownish gray. Fore wings variegated in ochraceous, red brown,
blackish brown and white. The ground is ochraceous, appearing irregu
larly at base, in the elongate orbicular, in the t.-p. line opposite the cell
and at apex, elsewhere obscured by dark red brown shades. Lines black
ish, clouded, t.-a. outwardly oblique, t.-p. bent over cell with minute light
points on the veins. Reniform ringed in white, showing a distinct spot
at the outer side of the constriction ; clavifonn black outlined, obscured
in a blackish shade which irregularly fills the median space. Subterminal
line pale, waved, obscure, terminal space shaded in black and running in
ward to t.-p. line opposite cell and on submedian fold. Hind wing nearly
entirely blackish shaded over pale ochraceous. Expanse 43 mm.

One specimen, Victoria, B. C. (E. M. Anderson).
Type. No. 7831, U. S. National Museum.
Allied to vultuosa Grote, but overspread with dark shadings
while the reniform is contrasting white as in apamiformis Grote.

Hadena geminimacula, n. sp.

Lustrous blackish brown, brown or reddish, the markings all present
and arranged as in pluviosa Walker, but not contrasted, something as in
ethnica Sm., though less extreme. Lines geminate, crenulate, pale filled ;
subterminal broken into a series of pale dots, edged with black cusps
within, its course straighter than in pluviosa*. Ordinary spots outlined

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in black, the reniform without any white except two little specks at its
lower extremity between veins 3 to 5, but these specks are bright and con
trasting. Hind wing blackish outwardly, pale at base. Expanse 47 mm.

Five specimens, Pecos, New Mexico, August 9 and 14 (T. D.
A. Cockerell), Garfield Co., Colorado (D. Bruce).

Type. No. 7832, U. S. National Museum.

The species is near pluviosa, distinguished therefrom by the
smoother colors and the restriction of the white marking of the
reniform. The two specimens from Mr. Cockerell are nearly
black; two from Mr. Bruce are more brownish, possibly due to
the specimens being older ; the third specimen from Mr. Bruce
is reddish brown. The three specimens from Mr. Bruce have
been in the National Museum collection ever since Dr. J. B.
Smith arranged it, the brown ones under the label pluviosa
Walker, the red one under lateritia Hiibner.

Taeniocampa terminatissima, n. sp.

Grayish clay color, shining; terminal space contrasting, ashen, sepa
rated by a light subterminal line which is distinct and perfectly straight
from just below apex to before anal angle. Wing otherwise a little shaded,
darkened before the subterminal line, lighter near the costa, but the ex
treme costal edge dark. Lines fine, linear, obliterate, dark, crenulate, the
t.-p. with minute points on the veins. Orbicular represented by a black
point; reniform large, illy defined, stained with rusty brown, with a black
mark filling its lower third. Median shade line indicated ; a terminal row
of black points. Hind wing dark gray. Expanse 30 mm. The vestiture
is hairy.

Described from one 9, Las Vegas, New Mexico (C. P. Gil
lette.)

Type. No. 7833, U. S. National Museum.

Amiana, n. gen.

Head subprominent, eves large round, naked, front strongly conically
produced, smooth ; tongue distinct, palpi short, but exceeding front,
scaled, third joint small; antennae simple in both sexes. Legs moderate,
normal, tibiae unarmed, unmodified ; vestiture scaly, without tufts. Wings
rather wide, accessory cell present on fore wings; vein 5 of hind wings
distinct, remote from 4, arising from the cross T vein half way between
center and lower angle of cell.

Type : A. niama.

Judging from the figures in the Biologia Central i- Americana
Miana pulchra Druce and M. zonella Druce belong to this
genus.

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Amiana niama, n. sp.

Deep grayish brown ; fore wings relieved by an ocherous reddish shade
in basal space and before anal angle, the latter sometimes forming a dis
tinct but diffuse spot. Basal and t.-a. lines black, single, waved ; a black
median shade line : t.-p. line whitish, black edged, waved, excurved gently
over re ni form and inward on submedian fold; subterminal line a black
shade, limited by whitish without, produced at veins i, 3, 4. and 6; a row
of terminal' black dashes ; claviform an ocherous. point; orbicular black
ringed, pale filled, small ; reniform distinct, constricted, white and black
ringed, concolorously filled; costa with white dots subapically. Fringe
and hind wings blackish-brown. Below dark, the hind wings with three
faintly darker lines. Expanse 24-25 mm.

Eight specimens, Huachuca Mountains and Nogales, Arizona
(E. J. Oslar).

Type. No. 7834, U. S. National Museum.

Bomolocha chicagonis, n. sp.

Brownish gray; t.-a. line obsolete, the wing obscured with dark brown
up to the straight, slightly curving, oblique t.-p. line. Beyond lighter,
lightest just next the t.-p. line; subterminal line subpunctiform, whitish,
defined by a dark shade within. Ordinary spots wanting. Hind wing
pale, grayish shaded. Expanse 28 mm.

One 9, Chicago, 111. (A. Kwiat).

Type. No. 7835, U. S. National Museum.

Near umbralis Smith, but lighter, the t.-p. line more oblique,
subterminal more remote from the edge and fused with its ac
companying shade, no black dots on the ordinary spots.

A second specimen from Turtle Mountains, N. Dak. (A. H.
Verrill), is the same but much paler, being pallid whitish ochra-
ceous. I call it variety perpallida.

Type. No. 7836, U. S. National Museum.

Family GEOMETRID^E.

Sciagraphia gilletteata, n. sp.

Warm reddish gray; t.-a. and t.-p. lines broad, thick, upright from the
internal margin, not reaching costa, light orange brown with pale edges.
Di&cal dot dark; terminal space shaded in dark brown, darkest next the
t.-p. line and separated therefrom by a black line. Hind wing with a faint
discal dot and trace of an orange band above anal angle. Below washed
with vermilion on costa and veins. Expanse 27 mm.

One JS Colorado (C. P. Gillette).
Type. No. 7776, U. S. National Museum.

Resembles continuata Walk., and snoviata Pack., but the two
thick, upright bands are orange brown, not black.

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Tracheops bolteri Hulst.

I have received this species from Las Vegas (C. P. Gillette)
and Mesilla Park, New Mexico (T. D. A. Cockerell), the speci
mens being, respectively, a 9 and a d\ Hulst described the form
from a single cf from Mr. Bolter's collection and, in placing the
genus in his synopsis, he made some of his characteristic as
sumptions, viz, that the female had simple antennae and no fovea
on fore wings below, when he had never seen a female. In this
case he is proven to have been right. I do not detect the fovea
and the antennae are not pectinated, yet they are peculiar in that
they are strongly serrate on the central part of the shaft. In col
oration the 9 resembles the d\ but the hind wings have more
pronounced markings, forming a rather definite scalloped mesial
line. Fresh specimens are obviously pale olivaceous green, as
this color is largely present in the 9 specimen, though lost in the
less well preserved <?.

Family SESIID^.

Parharmonia picese, n. sp.

Shining blue black; wings hyaline, colorless, fore wing witb black
costal edge, discal spot and outer margin, broad at apex. Antenna; black.
Inner edge of patagia red; palpi at base within, fore coxae without and
irregular markings on inner sides of all tibiae also red; fore tarsi reddish,
middle tarsi reddish within, hind tarsi black. Abdomen with scattered
red scales on the under surface, forming a defined double patch on the
third segment, uniform black above. Expanse about 25 mm.

Three specimens, Hoquiam, Wash. (H. E. Burke), bred on
Picea sitchensis ; Keyport, Wash. (C. V. Piper).

Type. No. 7837, U. S. National Museum.

This species may be referable to the genus Sesia, as the char
acter of the anal tuft in the two sexes is the only diagnostic char
acter that I can gather from Beutenmiiller's tables to separate
Parharmonia and Sesia. In either case it does not seem to co
incide with any described species.

Family PYRALID^E.

Ulophora brunneella, n. sp.

Fore wings with n veins, 4 and 5 closely approximated at base, but
separate, 6 from end of cell, curving downward, 7 and 8 long stalked, 10
close to the stalk but separate. Hind wings with 8 veins, 3 approximated
to, but separate from the long stalk of 4 and 5; cell about one-fourth the
length of wing. Labial palpi upturned far above vertex, third joint small ;
maxillary palpi small, filiform; $ antenna; simple, thickened; tongue
strong; ocelli present; fore wings with a basal scale ridge.

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Body ciark purplish gray; fore wing long, squarish, purple gray, rather
light, somewhat reddish in the lower part of median space. Basal space
reddish below, costal part shaded in "black. Scale ridge oblique, black,
followed by a broad black space to the narrow, parallel, black inner line
which is edged with paler without. Median space above clouded with
black; discal dot diffused. Outer line strongly bent outward at veins 4-5,
pale, narrowly black edged. Veins of terminal space black lined, the apex
with a small dark shade; terminal line black; fringe plumbeous, shining,
not metallic. Hind wing fuscous, subpellucid, fringe nearly concolorous.
Expanse 24 mm.

One c?, Tryon, North Carolina, May 25, 1903 (W. F. Fiske).
Type. No. 7838, U. S. National Museum.
The species resembles Pinipestis zimmermanni Grote, but is
smaller and the inner line of fore wing is much more oblique.

Ulophora tephrosiella, n. sp.

Rather dark purplish gray. End of patagia and a streak in basal space
rusty red. Scale ridge dark purplish, preceded by a lighter tint and fol
lowed by a rusty red shade. Inner line at about the middle of the wing,
wavy, followed by a dark shade. Discal dots dark; outer line gently out-
curved, pale, preceded and followed by a broad dark shade; terminal line
dark; hind wings fuscous, lighter in the ^ ; fringe pale. Expanse 13-14
mm.

Three specimens, Washington, D. C., August 27, 1894; bred
from larvae on Tcphrosia virginiana. Department of Agricul
ture, Insectary No. 6323.

Type. 'No. 7839/17! S. National Museum.

Ortholepis gillettella, n. sp.

Fore wings with n veins, 4 and 5 separate, 10 separate; hind wings
with 8 veins, 4 and 5 long stalked, cell moderate, counting to the origin of
vein 3 fully half the length of the wing, to the center of cross vein over
one-third. Labial palpi upturned, exceeding the vertex, third joint slender,
half as long as second; maxillary palpi smoothly scaled ; <$ antennae bent
above base with a tuft of large scales in the bend; an erect ridge of scales
preceding the transverse anterior line of fore wings. Dark blackish cin
ereous, shining. Lines a shade paler, distinct, the inner oblique, waved,
the outer bent at cell and submedian fold, slightly crenulate, both edged
with darker; a faint blackish line runs from inception of outer line on
costa to median space on inner margin. Scale ridge black; the discal
dots form a narrow black bar of raised scales; terminal edge black.
Hind wings brown black. Below immaculate blackish. Abdominal seg
ments above faintly whitish ringed at tips. Expanse 25 mm.

Described from one ( j\ Colorado, probably from Fort Collins
(C. P. Gillette).

Type. No. 7840, U. S. National Museum.

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Ambesa busckella, n. sp.

Fore wing with n veins, hind wing with 8; labial palpi erect, maxillary
palpi small, filiform; ^ antennae slightly bent above base with a row of
small brown teeth nearly hidden by scales in a groove within the bend.
Head, palpi, thorax and base of fore wings pale whitish gray, tinged with
ochraceous on the base of the wings. Following this is a broad black
space, in the outer edge of which is the inner line, fine, white, zigzag
angled; a diffused whitish spot on the inner margin just beyond. Outer
part of wing pale gray, middle field faintly ochraceous tinged below. Dis-
cal spot large, black. Outer line white, sharply black edged, obscurely
crenulate, bent in a little at end of cell; an abbreviated, oblique, wavy
blackish line from the bend to below discal dot. Terminal line dotted,
black. Hind wings pale fuscous. Expanse 20 mm.

One J", one 9, Plummer's Island, Maryland, May 16, August
24 (Aug. Busck).

Type, No. 7841, U. S. National Museum.

Meroptera liquidambarella, n. sp.

Fore wings with n veins, 4 and 5 short stalked, 10 short stalked with 8
and 9 ; $ antennae with bend at base and small scale tuft ; maxillary palpi
with a large yellow tuft, concealed within the labial palpi. Head and
thorax blackish gray; forewings with light gray ground of the color of
prave.Ua. Grote, but this color appears not only on the inner line, but in
the median space as well. Base reddish, dark, obscure; t.-a. line oblique,
straight, of the ground color, followed by a broad black band and this by
a narrow, slightly irregular one, which is shaded to the broad band on the
costa. Discal dots more or less completely joined ; a broken band beyond
them and a clouded dot below, both in the light gray median space. T.-p.
line narrow, pale, preceded and followed by a black shade, bent out in the
middle but scarcely crenulate. A terminal row of nearly joined black
dashes. Hind wings gray as in pravella. Expanse 16-18 mm.

Washington, D. C. Described from sixty-one specimens bred
from sweet gum at the insectary of the Department of Agricul
ture, August, iSSi (no number) and May, 18^3 (No. 5491).

Type. No. 7842, U. S. National Museum. '

A specimen was sent to the late Dr. Hulst several years ago and
was determined by him as " Salebria nubiferella Rag. (??)."
The specimen was not in good condition, being an undersized
female, somewhat rubbed, so that the determination was not
made at the best advantage. The species is not referable to Sale
bria on account of the venation ; but, even so, it does not agree
with the description of any of the species of that genus. In
Ragonot's figure of mibiferella, the base is not red, and the
course of the inner line is interrupted and different from the speci
mens before me.

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Salebria triplagiella, n. sp.

Gray; fore wings rather dark, appearing granular from the pale scales
mixed with darker; no reddish shades. Inner line whitish, oblique, irreg
ularly dentate, a black border outwardly on costal half, inwardly on
lower half; a small white shade nearly touching the line on the inner mar
gin, followed by a diffuse black spot. Discal dots joined, large, black.
Outer line rather coarsely crenulate, very slightly more incised at cell and
submedian fold ; a row of terminal dots. Hind wing fuscous, subpellucid,
the edge darker, fringe whitish. Expanse 25 mm.

Described from one <j% Winnipeg, Manitoba (A. W. Hanham).

Type. No. 7843, U. S. National Museum.

The form comes near annulosella Ragonot, but the wings are
more elongate, the markings less definite and rougher, while the
outer line is scarcely incised at all on the submedian fold.

Pyla hanhamella, n. sp.

Palpi porrect, greenish metallic, white scaled below narrowly. Head
and thorax black, slightly metallic; $ antennae bent at base with very
small scale tuft in the bend, of 9 simple. Fore wings brownish black,
the basal space only with a slight metallic reflection ; median space washed
with white scales. Lines gray white, rather broad, diffused, the inner
oblique, slightly waved, the outer indented at cell and submedian fold.
The grayish scaling in the median space is clustered over the cell and
defines distinctly a large dark discal dot. Hind wings light brownish,
darker on the edge, the fringe pale, almost whitish. Below pale sordid
whitish, yellowish tinged, unmarked except for a trace of the outer line on
the costa. Abdomen dark, ringed in pale at the ends of the segments and
lighter towards tip. Expanse 22-24 mm -

Described from 3 g$ and i 9 , Winnipeg, Manitoba, one dated
June 27, 1900 (A. W. Hanham).

Type. No. 7844, U. S. National Museum.

Pyla rainierella, n. sp.

Black; fore wings with scattered greenish metallic scales. Lines and
discal dot without these scales, black, diffused, rather broad and near to
gether. Inner line straight, nearly perpendicular; outer line bent out
ward in the middle. Hind wings and underside black. Expanse 16-17
mm.

Two ^(-JS Mt. Rainier, Washington (C. V. Piper).

Type. No. 7845, U. S. National Museum.

The species of Pyla may be separated by the following table :

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Fore wings without cross lines.

Wings long, size large (32mm.) metalicella Hulst

Wings less elongate, size smaller (25 mm.).

Iridescence coppery scintillans Grote

Iridescence bronzy green ceneoviridella Ragonot

Iridescence greenish yellow, sexes unlike (eneella Hulst

Fore wings with transverse lines.
These lines pale.

Lines white \ wings with metallic lustre bistriatella Hulst

Lines grayish ; wings without metallic lustre.

Dark fuscous beneath incorruscella Hulst

Light yellowish fuscous beneath hanhamella Dyar

These lines black rainierella Dyar

Megasis caudellella, n. sp.

$ gray, pulverulent, lines whitish, straight, the inner line very slightly
bent subcostally, the outer almost perfectly straight, both faintly blackish
edged toward the median field. Discal spot black, more or less distinct;
terminal line shaded black. Hind wings subpellucid pale gray, termen
blackish narrowly, fringe pale. Expanse 30-32 mm.

9 much smaller and more distinctly marked. Lines whitish, diffuse,
nearly straight with broad distinct blackish borders within; discal dots
separated by a whitish point. Hind wings as in the male. Expanse 20-
22 mm.

Two (^(j", two 99, foothills above Golden, Colorado, May
13, 1901 (Dyar and Caudell).

Type. No. 7846, U. S. National Museum.

Differs from the other species of Megasis of similar size in the
straightness of the lines.

Megasis piperella, n. sp.

Fore wings with n veins, hind wings with 8, 4 and 5 long stalked;
labial palpi moderate, drooping; maxillary, small, filiform. Male antenna-
simple; no lateral tuft on thorax. Fore wings elongate, narrow, apex
depressed; light ashy gray; a diffuse ochraceous ray through the cell.
Costa white on basal third, running to over half subcostally but not pure
white being mixed with scattered cinereous scales. Discal dots black,
separated by the end of the ocherous ray. Veins slightly powdered in
darker; lines absent. Hind wings moderately ample, subpellucid, pale
fuscous tinted. Below like hind wings above. Expanse 32 mm.

One 3% Pullman, Washington, May 15, 1898 (C. V. Piper).
Washington Experiment Station No. 233.

Type. No. 7847, U. S. National Museum.

This may be Epischnia granitella Rag., but I place it in
Megasis in an effort to interpret Hulst's tables literally.

The species of Megasis may be separated as follows :

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Fore wings elongate triangular, broad; hind wings very full and ample;
9 markedly smaller than r^.

Outer line irregular and indistinct or wanting, at least in the $.
(J 1 with numerous dots on the veins; with inner line

waved ed-wardsialis Hulst

(^ without dots, a yellowish ray in submedian fold ; 9 with

inner line straight, whitish excantalis Hulst

Outer line well formed, fairly distinct.

Outer line bent ; palpi hairy , atrella Hulst

Outer line straight; palpi normal caudellella Dyar

Without these characters.

Large species (33 mm.) ; cross lines obsolete piperella Dyar

Small species (15 mm.); cross lines present cinctella Hulst

Zophodia orobanchella, n. sp.

Wings trigonate, rounded, rather less elongate than usual. Gray, white
and black scales rather evenly mixed. Inner line lost; outer black, broad
on the costa, twice angled below becoming narrow and obsolete. Discal
spot large, black, rounded. A fine black line runs through the middle of
the cell from the discal dot, edged with white, most distinctly so below.
The white and black scales costally are arranged indistinctly in lines.
Termen nearly white, the terminal line diffusely dotted black. Hind
wings pale fuscous, dark on the margin. Expanse 18-20 mm.

Three specimens, VVawawai, Washington, August, 1898 (C. V.
Piper), reared from larvae in the flowers of Orobanche ludovi-
ciana, Washington Experiment Station No. 051.

Type. No. 7848, U. S. National Museum.

Staudingeria olivacella, n. sp.

Fore wings narrow but triangularly widened ; obscure sordid olivaceous,
the costal edge diffusely white. Lines nearly obsolete, shadowy, dark
gray, the inner line not definite, the outer retracted nearly to touch the
small, obscure discal dots. Hind wings lightly gray shaded; fringe pale.
Expanse 24 mm.

One r?, Pullman, Washington, August 12, 1898 (C. V. Piper),
Washington Experiment Station, No. 539.
Type. No. 7849, U. S. National Museum.

Staudingeria perluteella, n. sp.

Fore wings with i T veins, hind wings with 7 veins, antennae simple, labial
palpi obliquely ascending, long, third joint very small, deflexed, maxillary
palpi with a long bunch of hairs at the tip, tongue distinct. Fore wings
narrow, well angled and rather pointed, uniform pale luteous ochraceous,
the lines and discal dot only indicated by faint shadows, not definite
enough to describe. Hind wings, broad, rounded, fuscous gray, a little
translucent, dark at the extreme margin, the fringe long and pale. Ex
panse 25 mm.

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One specimen, Fort Collins, Colorado (C. P. Gillette).
Tvpe. No. 7850, U. S. National Museum.

Homceosoma reliquellum, n. sp.

Smooth, obscure cinereous, thickly dusted with white on costal half.
Lines obsolete, the inner represented by three black dots, the upper and
lower of which are very small, the middle one more outwardly placed;
outer line indicated by an outward blackish shade, curved, regular and
even. Discal dots black, joined into a large spot in the male, narrowly
separated in the female. Hind wings whitish, gray tinted along costa and
outer edge. Expanse 15-16 mm.

One d% one 9, Center Harbor, New Hampshire, July 19, 1902
(H. G. Dyar).

Type. No. 7851, U. S. National Museum.

Nearly allied to Homceosoma mucidellum Rag. but smaller,
smoother cinereous, the outer line very vague and slightly curved,
discal dots approximated or fused. I have mticidellum from
Texas, Colorado (G. P. Gillette), Kaslo, British Columbia (Dyar
and Caudell), Pullman, Washington (C. V. Piper), and Los An
geles, California (A- Koebele). The specimens vary much in size,
but not in the characteristic markings.

Tacoma Hulst.

In his original description, Hulst says, "cT antenna simple,"
but changes this later, giving the c? a tuft of scales in the bend of
antennae. The genus would, therefore, fall as a synonym of
Ncphopteryx Hiibner, as Ragonot shrewdly suspected ;* but I
think the section of Nephopteryx, with veins 4 and 5 of fore
wings actually stalked (not approximate only), may properly be
recognized as of generic value, under the name Tacoma. It
will contain, of North American species, feriella Hulst, snb-
tinctella Rag., and the following:

Tacoma nyssaecolella, n. sp.

Dark lilaceous gray ; inner line rather oblique, pale gray, angled slightly
centrally, preceded on inner margin by a subquadrate brown-black patch,
followed outwardly by a triangular black patch on costa, joined to a nar
row black line below. Discal dots joined, biack ; a huge, diffuse, brown-
black spot below, touching inner margin and outer line. Outer line pale,
slightly excurved in the middle, very obscurely dentate, edged faintly and
narrowly with black. Terminal line black; fringe gray. Hind wings
pale fuscous. Expanse 16 mm.

One 6% bred from Nyssa multiflora* issued August 14, 1894.
" Collected near Bladensburg Road, D. C., in a tightly folded leaf.

^Mon. Phycit. et Gall., p. 205, 1893.

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The larva was black, five-eighths of an inch long, the head yellow,
retractile; thinly covered with short white hairs. The leaf was
folded lengthwise and upwards, the edges tightly fastened to
gether, giving the fold a very sharp edge, the entire leaf looking
like a pod. Within the fold there is a web which holds the ex
crement suspended." (Chambliss.)

Type. No. 7928, U. S. National Museum.

Ephestia nonparilella, n. sp.

Head round, eyes large; labial palpi upturned weakly, second and third
joints nearly equal, not reaching vertex ; maxillary palpi filiform; tongue
moderate; <$ antennas simple. Fore wing with 9 veins, all free; hind
wing with 6 veins, 5 and 8 wanting, 3 and 4 separate, but approximate at
base.

Fore wing long and narrow; pale gray, irrorate with black scales ; lines
black, distinct, contrasted, parallel, the inner at the middle of the wing,
the outer at the outer fourth. Both are slightly oblique, parallel to the
outer margin^ straight, the inner edged within with white, the outer edged
without and more distinctly so. Discal spots joined, black, touching a
black cloud on costa. Hind wings whitish, subpellucid. Expanse 18 mm.

One cT? Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona, June 7 (E. A. Schwarz).
Type. No. 7929, U. S. National Museum.

Psorosina, n. gen.

Fore wings with n veins, 4 and 5 separate. Sand 9 stalked; hind wings
with 7 veins, 2 at the angle of the cell, 3 and 4 stalked. $ antennae bent
above base with a tuft of scales in the bend ; tongue moderate ; labial
palpi erect, recurved to vertex; maxillary palpi small, filiform.

Under this I place hammondi Riley and the following new
species. Hulst puts hammondi in Canarsia* of which he says:
u Close to Psorosa Zell., differing principally in the stemming
of veins 4 and 5." But Psorosa has long wings with a scale
ridge, while the palpi are long and porrect (European dahliella
Tr.). In ulmiarrosorella Clem., veins 4 and 5 of fore wings are
stalked and Canarsia must be restricted to this, including per^
haps graciella Hulst, which I do not know.

Psorosina angulella, n. sp.

Shining dark brownish gray ; inner line broad, whitish, obscurely gemi
nate, rather diffuse, the costal half oblique, the inner half straight. Dis
cal dots black, joined in an oblique white cloud; outer line near margin,
faint, pale, straight. Hind wing pale fuscous. Expanse 14 mm.

One ji, Iowa (C. P. Gillette). Very close to hammondi ',
but the inner line is strongly angled. It may prove a variety of
hammondi.

Type. No. 7930, U. S. National Museum.

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Passadena Hulst.

The type of this genus, constantella Hulst, is obviously syn
onymous with Getulia flavidorsella Rag. Ragonot defined
Getulia from an African species, a 9 only, and later referred to
it his flavidorsella, first described under Anoristia from 9 9
only. Whether the African species has the same $ characters
as the American one is purely a matter of surmise at present and
I therefore retain Hulst's generic term and remove Getulia from
the North American list.

Passadena flavidorsella Ragonot.

I have the species from Los Angeles, Cal., May (D. W. Co-
quillett), Argus Mountains, Cal., May, 1891 (A. Koebele), Tuc
son, Ariz., March 13, 1898 (E. A. Schwarz), Catalina Springs,
Ariz., April 10, 1898 (E. A. Schwarz), Oracle, Ariz., July 15
(E. A. Schwarz), Colora'o, New Mex., July 10, at light (T. D.
A. Cockerell).

The maxillary palpi in the g are pencil tufted and the species
falls near Etiella Zell., but is distinguished therefrom by the
shorter labial palpi.

Myelois fragilella, n. sp.

Fore wings with n veins, 4 and 5 stalked, 8 and 9 stalked; hind wings
with 8 veins, 2 long before the angle of the cell, 4 and 5 stalked, cell long;
tongue strong; labial palpi upturned, maxillary palpi filiform ; $ antennae
simple.

Fragile and slender. Fore wings light gray, white mixed with ciner
eous and black; lines not contrasted, narrow, white, their blackish edges
more conspicuous than the lines. Inner oblique, distinctly and strongly
produced outward on submedian fold, blackish edged within. Discal
dots elongate, well separated, blackish. Outer line minutely angled on
discal and submedian folds, dark edged within. Terminal line of scattered
dark scales. Hind wing translucent, pale fuscous outwardly. Expanse
21 mm.

One JS Pecos, New Mexico, at light June 21 (T. D. A. Cock
erell).

Type. No. 793 1, U. S. National Museum.

Varneria, n. gen.

Fore wings with 9 veins, 3 and 4 stalked, 5 and 8 absent. 10 from the
cell ; hind wings with 6 veins, 2 near the angle of the cell, 3 and 4 stalked,
5 and 8 absent. Tongue distinct, scaled, but very short, about equalling
the length of the head. Palpi upturned above vertex, second joint reach
ing vertex, third half as long as second or over.

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Varneria postremella, n. sp.

Head, thorax and fore wings dark vinous red, the head, thorax and
basal half of costa overspread with blackish. A blackish line follows the
discal fold and spreads diffusely on the discal nervules. Terminal edge
and fringe blackish. Hind wing dark fuscous, blackish on margin. Ex
panse 10.5 mm.

Three 9 9 , Kentucky, August (Aug. Busck), Plummer's Is
land, Maryland, July 1903 (Aug. Busck).
Type. No. 7932, U. S. National Museum.

Peoria discostrigella, n. sp.

Fore wings with n veins or ro, 3 and 4 separate, 4 and 5 very long
stemmed or coincident. Sand 9 stemmed, 10 and n from the cell; hind
wings with 7 veins, 2 before the angle of the cell, 3 and 4 very shortly
stalked or separate, 8 distinct, the cell moderate, nearly half the length
of wing. Tongue rudimentary; palpi very long, porrect; clypeus smooth.

Head, palpi and thorax whitish ocherous ; fore wings pale ocherous,
showing in a broad stripe from base to margin along submedian fold, else
where longitudinally lined with gray on the veins; a broad costal white
stripe to apex; a long lanceolate white stripe along median vein from
near base to near margin. Hind wings white, subpellucid, yellowish
tinted. Expanse 28 mm.

Three 9 9, Roswell, New Mexico, August 22 (T. D. A. Cock-
erell), Tucson, Arizona, July 21 (E. A. Schwarz).

jfype. No. 7933 1 U- S. National Museum.

Perhaps more properly referable to Aurora Rag. The vena
tion seems unusually unstable.

Tolima cincaidella, n. sp.

Fore wings with n veins, 2 well before angle of cell, 3 before angle, 4
and 5 very shortly stalked, 8 and 9 stalked. 10 connate with the base of
the stalk, n from the cell. Hind wings with 7 veins, 2 from the angle of
the cell, 3 and 4 long stalked, 5 absent, 8 distinct. Tongue moderate, ap
parently about twice the length of the head ; palpi very long, porrect and
drooping; antennae simple, lengthily ciliate.

Pale ocherous whitish, lines paler, obscure, defined by dusky edgings
toward the median space. Inner line produced a little on costa, preceded
by a very faint, russet patch on the inner margin. Discal dots blackish,
separate. Outer line drawn inward subcostally, else even, a slight denta
tion indicated in the dusky border. The wing is all very pallid. Hind
wing whitish, translucent. Expanse 27 mm.

Three specimens, all with the abdomens broken, but apparently
males, Rock Spring, Wyoming (T. Kincaid).
r fype. No. 7934, U. S. National Museum.

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Apparently falls in Altoona by Hulsfs tables, as veins 4 and

5 are very shortly stalked ; but on reading- the text, it is seen that
Altoona is not different from Volusia, both of which are regarded
by Ragonot as synonyms of Tolima and have veins 3 and 4 of
the fore wings distinctly stalked. The present species differs also
from the generic type in the greater length of tongue.

Atascosa quadricolorella, n. sp.

Fore wings with u veins, 4 and 5 stalked, 8 and 9 stalked; hind wings
with 7 veins, 2 at the angle of the cell, 3 and 4 long stalked, 8 very short.
Tongue small, vet distinct; palpi obliquely ascending, the second joint
enlarged at the tip, third about one-fourth the second.

Fore wing gray, powdered with white on costal third. Inner line white,
narrow, arcuate, more oblique on costal half, without any indentations.
Following it, a band, red-brown on costal half, ocher on inner half and
spreading into a large blotch. An illy defined darker shade through the
cell, cutting the brown band and touching the partly confluent discal dots.
Outer line white, edged by black scales on both sides, a little excurved
mesially and obscurely dentate. A terminal blackish diffuse line. Hind
wings white, a fuscous line towards apex. Expanse 18 mm.

One 9, Las Cruces, New Mexico (T. D. A. Cockerell).
Type. No. 7935, U. S. National Museum.

Caudellia, n. gen.

Fore wings with 9 veins, 5 and 8 wanting, 3 and 4 separate; hind wings
with 7 veins, 3 and 4 separate, 8 very short, cell normal, about half of
wing. Tongue moderate, distinct; labial palpi obliquely ascending, third
joint somewhat deflexed, long, exceeding the front by twice the length of
the head. Maxillary palpi very small, filiform. Ocelli present, minute;
tf antennae simple, a little irregular and flexuous above base. Fore wing
with oblique scale tuft on costa below beyond base.

Allied to Unadilla Hulst.
Caudellia apyrella, n. sp.

Dark vinous brown, heavily overlaid with black. Fore wings with the
markings obscured, vinous shaded; inner line a vague paler shade; a
lighter patch on outer third of costa touching the obscure discal dots; a
black shade at apex ; terminal line black. Hind wing whitish, subpellucid,
fuscous tinted. Fore wing pale ashen below; costal tuft vinous. Expanse
14-15 mm.

Two cTd\ Plummers Island, Maryland, June and July, 1903
(Aug. Busck).

Type. No. 785 2, U. S. National Museum.

Caudellia albovittella, n. sp.

Fore wings with 9 veins, all separate, 5 and 8 wanting; hind wings with

6 veins, 3 and 4 separate; palpi porrect, the basal joint ascending, the

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third moderate, slightly deflexed ; costal fold on the under side with a tuft
of scales in the male. Head and thorax dark purplish brown; fore wing
vinous brown shaded in black. Inner line oblique, straight, white, and
well contrasted, widened almost to a blotch subcostally. Outer line
whitish, pale, illy denned, rather near the margin; discal dots small,
black, succeeded by a few light scales. Hind wings subpellucid, fuscous
at the margin. Expanse 13 mm.

One d% one ?, Plummers Island, Maryland, July, 1903 (Aug.
Busck).

Type. No. 7853, U. S. National Museum.

Family COC

Slossonella, n. gen.

Allied to Hcterogenea, but with four spurs on the hind tibias. Palpi of
9 curved, but very short, hardly exceeding the front. Head sunken, form
rather slender. Fore wings with veins 8 and 9 stalked, 7 remote, 10 from
the base of the stalk. Hind wings with no veins stalked.

Slossonella tenebrosa, n. sp.

Dark rusty brown, nearly chocolate color. Fore wings with two slen
der black lines the inner nearly straight, at middle of wing, faint, obso
lete costally, the outer produced outward over the discal nervures, nar
row, flexuous. Hind wings brownish black with light brown fringe
Expanse 21 mm.

One , Jacksonville, Florida (Mrs. A. T. Slosson).
Type. No. 7941 , U. S. National Museum.

Family TORTRICIDyE.
Eucosma crenana Hiibner.

I have collected this European species at Kaslo, British Colum
bia, and bred the larvag on .willow. The specimens have been
shown to Mr. W. D. Kearfott and Dr. C. H. Fernald, who are
of the opinion that the species may be distinct from the European
one. I cannot, however, see the slightest reason for it

Eucosma solandriana Linnaeus.

I have received this European species from Victoria, British
Columbia, from Messrs. A. W. Hanham and E. M. Anderson.
Three of the forms of this strikingly variable species are repre
sented, the nearly unicolorous form, the dark one with white
dorsal patch and the light one with brown dorsal patch. In
Europe the larva is known to feed on willow and birch, and the
same will probably be found to be the case in North America.

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The next paper was by Mr. Schwarz, entitled :

A NEW COCCINELLID ENEMY OF THE SAN JOSE SCALE.
By E. A. SCHWARZ.

Mr. C. L. Marlatt who lately visited Southern California found
a small Coccinellid quite abundant on fruit trees infested by the
San Jose Scale (Aspidiotus perniciosus], and reports that it is
well known among the orchardists of Southern California as an
efficient enemy of that Coccid. From a study of specimens sub
mitted to me by Mr. Marlatt I find that they belong to the genus
Pseudoweisea Cockerell. These minute Coccinellids, originally
described by Dr. LeConte as Pentilia and subsequently referred
by J. Weise to his genus Smilia (the name changed to Epismilia
and finally to Pseudoweisea by Prof. Cockerell), all prey exclu
sively upon Diaspinas. In former years they were quite rare in
collections, but since economic entomologists have paid attention
to the enemies of imported Coccids, it was found that they are
in reality quite abundant.

Pseudoweisea suturalis, n. sp.

Rounded oval, convex; head and thorax nearly opaque, elytra shining.
Head, thorax, underside and legs black; elytra brownish red with the
suture narrowly black. Head but little wider than long, with the upper
surface flattened. Prothorax forming a distinct obtuse with the elytra,
oblique line at anterior angles distinct but not prolonged along the lateral
margin, basal marginal line distinct at the sides but very fine at the mid
dle, upper surface finely alutaceous and with sparse shallow larger punc
tures. Elytra not alutaceous, rather strongly but not densely punctured,
sutural stria distinct throughout, but very fine near the base. The black
color is usually confined to the narrow space between the suture and the
sutural striae. Length o.S to 0.9 mm.

Type. No. 7936, U. S. National Museum.

The National Museum has numerous specimens found by Mr.
F. Maskew at Long Beach, Los Angeles Co.. Cal., feeding on
Aspidiotus perniciosus ; and a long series of specimens bred by
Mr. D. W. Coquillett from larva? feeding on Aspidiotus aurantii
at Los Angeles, Cal.

The species resembles in form of the body the eastern P. mi-
sell a ^ but its head is narrower and the coloration different.
More or less immature, or bred specimens have the sterna (ex
cepting the metepisterna), and the abdomen brownish or reddish.

It may be that Mr. H. C. Fall's remarks on the occurrence of
P. (Smilia} ovalis Lee.,* refer to P. suturalis. The former
seems to be confined to the more southern parts of Florida and is
readily known from the more elongate form of the body.

* Occas. Papers Cal. Ac. Sc., vm, p. 85. 1901.

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Mr. Coquillett has kindly placed at my disposal a copy of his
field notes (written in 1892) referring to the larva and pupa of
this species. These notes read as follows :

" No. 344. Larva resembles fig. 364, page 432, of Packard's ' Guide to
the Study of Insects.'

" Body 12 segmented, olive-brown in the younger ones, becoming salmon-
brown in the older ones; head black, horizontal, depressed, about one-
half longer than wide, one-half as Avide as the first thoracic segment; the
latter is longer than any of the other body segments and is marked with
two black dorsal spots placed transversely; body widest at the third ab
dominal segment, last segment rounded behind, devoid of processes, fur
nished with a retractile proleg ; body sparsely clothed with microscopic
hairs each tipped with a minute translucent globule, mostly white but
sometimes tinged with yellow; the six thoracic legs black; length
1.50 mm.

" Found several at Los Angeles, Cal. , February 12, 1892, on orange trees
infested with Aspidiotus anrantii and red spiders upon both of which they
appeared to feed. In pupating the larval skin is worked back until the
middle of the dorsum of the first five abdominal segments are exposed to
view, but the sides of the fourth and fifth segments and the ends of the
wing cases remain concealed by the old larval skin.

" The pupa varies in color from pale yellow to deep orange-yellow, with
the first thoracic segment dark brown and marked with a whitish medio-
dorsal line; the pupa is covered with short hairs most abundant at the
front end and sides, and each tipped with a minute translucent globule.
Length 1.25 mm.

" Two larvge pupated March ist, but the date of the issuing of the adults
was not noted."

Mr. Schwarz, in this connection, stated that in the North
American fauna there are comparatively few Coccinellida} that
feed upon the armored scales (Diaspinas). Beside the genus Chi-
locorus and allied genera he knew only a few isolated genera of
other sub-families which have this habit. These are (i) the
various species of Pscudoweisea; (2) the two species of Cephal-
oscymnus, our eastern species, which feeds upon the maple scale
(Aspidiotus furfurus}, and the western species which has been
observed in Arizona preying upon an Aspidiotus on oak ; (3) the
species of Nipus, our smallest Coccinellidas, representing the sub
family Cranophorinae, which* appear, however, to be too rare to
have any economic importance ; (4) the species of the genus
Scymnillus.

In reply to a question by Prof. Piper, Mr. Schwarz stated that, so
far as has been observed, all Coccinellids that feed upon soft-bodied
scales and aphids feed also upon " red spiders" (Tetranychzis).

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Dr. Ashmead presented the following paper :

REMARKS ON HONEY BEES.
By WILLIAM H. ASHMEAD.

Hive bees, or the genuine honey bees, are of great economic
importance in all countries, not only as adding to the wealth of
the people but as pollenizers of various plants and fruit trees.
Their study, therefore, is always interesting, and something new
may be discovered either biologically or morphologically.

A number of exotic honey bees having accumulated in the
National Museum, I became greatly interested in their study and
in naming the various species represented. Thinking the results of
this study would prove of interest to some of our members I shall
to-night give briefly some of these results, and shall exhibit most
of the various species now represented in the National collection.
The species exhibited are, as you will see from the labels, from
various countries : Europe, Africa, the East Indies, Japan, China,
Malay Archipelago, the Philippines, etc.

You are all doubtless aware that authorities differ greatly respect
ing the number of species of honey bees found in the world.
Some think there is but a single species and treat others as mere
varieties ; others that there are two or three species ; while still
others would have nine, ten or a dozen species. Our material is
yet too limited for me to form any decided opinion, or to settle
the vexed question respecting the number of species, or the vari
ous problems connected with the numerous varieties, originating
from cross-fertilization and various climatic causes ; but so far as
my studies have gone I have reached almost the same opinion as
that given by Mr. Frederick Smith, of the British Museum, many
years ago, and published in the Annals and Magazine of Natural
History for 1865.

The old genus Apis should, I think, be divided into two genera,
representing the two sections first defined by Smith, as follows:

Eyes somewhat convergent above so that the vertex is narrowed, the
lateral ocelli being farther from each other than to the eye margin ;
second recurrent nervure received by the third cubital cell very near

its apex Megnpis, n. gen.

(Type : Apis dor sat a Fabr.)

Eyes not convergent above, the vertex not narrowed, the lateral ocelli
not farther from each other than to the eye margin ; second recur
rent nervure received by the third cubital cell some distance from

its apex Apis Linne.

(Type : Apis mellifera L.)

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Genus MEGAPIS Ashmead.
Onlv two species fall in this genus,
(i.) Megapis zonata Smith.

Apis zonata Smith.

Hab. Philippine Islands, Celebes.

This species is treated by Gerstaecker as a variety of Apis dor-
sata Fabr., but I consider it quite distinct. I exhibit a single g
taken by Dr. P. L. Stangl, at Bacoor, Philippine Islands.

(2.) Megapis dorsata Fabricius.
Apis dorsata Fabr.
a. var. bicolor King,
aa. var. testacea Smith.

Hab. India, Java, Ceylon, Borneo, Malay Archipelago, Philip
pines.

Evidently a common species in some places. Dr. W. L. Ab
bott has sent the National Museum many specimens from the
Straits Settlement.

Genus APIS Linne.

(i.) Apis mellifera Linne.
(Typical form black.)

a. var. ligustica Latr.
aa. var. fasciata Latr.

Hab. All parts of the world (introduced).
(2.) Apis cerana Fabricius.

Apis sinensis Smith, $.
Apisjaponica Radoszkowsky, ^.

Hab. Japan and China.

I show specimens of 9, and $ from Japan and China. The
species is apparently common in Japan. It shows some affinity
with Apis mellifera, but is quite distinct as may be seen bv com
paring the different sexes with mellifera exhibited together in
the box.

(3.) Apis indica Fabricius.

Hab. India.
(4.) Apis nigrocincta Smith.

Hab. India, China, Malay Peninsula, and the Philippines.

A common species variable in the color of the abdomen.

(5.) Apis nigritarum Lepeletier.

Apis adansonii Latr.

Hab. Africa.

A smaller species than nigrocincta and indica.

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(6.) Apis unicolor Latreille.

Hab. Madagascar.

It is also recorded from the Philippines, but probably erro
neously.

(7.) Apis florea Fabricius.

Hab. India.

This is probably the smallest honey bee known, and presents
certain structural characters that will exclude it from the genus
Apis Linne, as now restricted. In some of its characters it
shows some affinities that ally it to the large honey bees Mcgapis.
I propose to place it in a genus by itself under the name Micrapis.
The lateral ocelli are farther from each other than to the eye
margin, the venation nearly as in Apis Linne, while the basal joint
of the hind tarsi in the male is incisely lobed.

Dr. Ashmead stated his belief that the honey bees were
originally in the wild state black, unbanded, and that the yel
low-banded races of Apis mellifera are a product of domestica
tion and artificial selection. In discussing Dr. Ashmead's com
munication, Mr. Benton said he differed decidedly from the
former when he stated that all wild bees belong to the black type.
He cited the various races of mellifera which are found in east
ern Mediterranean countries and have undoubtedly been wild for
thousands of years, their yellow color being in no sense a result
of domestication. A. dorsata and A. florca are both yellow-
banded bees, yet have never been cultivated ; and itidica, which
is quite highly colored in some portions of India, is cultivated to
a very limited extent only. He referred to the mention of yellow
bees in Virgil's 4th Georgic, and expressed the belief that the
Italian race of honey bees was the result of contact between bees
probably brought by early Phoenician settlers to southern Italy
and the black bees of the country. He stated his belief that there
have probably always been two distinct types of wild bees occu
pying distinct regions.

Mr. Benton said further that Apis dorsata has been known in
literature as the Giant Bee of India ; he thought it should not be
called the Common Bee of India the term applied to it by Dr.
Ashmead since that designation belongs to Apis indica, a more
abundant and more widely distributed species than dorsata.

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Dr. Howard asked Mr. Benton if he could tell what was the
species of bee mentioned in Kipling's Jungle Book as chasing the
"red dholes" or hairy-toed dogs of the Deccan. Mr. Benton
replied that it was undoubtedly dorsata, a species known for its
fierceness and persistence in pursuing intruders when thoroughly
aroused. Dr. Howard then asked Mr. Benton whether the life-
history of the honey bee as portrayed in Maeterlinck's " Life of
the Bee," is scientifically accurate, to which Mr. Benton replied
that it is so, except, perhaps, in some minor particulars which he
did not then recollect.

The concluding paper was by Mr. Busck, and entitled :

A MEW TINEID GENUS FROM ARIZONA.

By AUGUST BUSCK.
Dorata,* n. gen.

Labial palpi (Fig. 2) very long, porrected ; second joint thickened with
stiff porrected hairs, nearly smooth on the underside, roughened above;
terminal joint short, deflexed, somewhat thickened with scales, pointed,
though not acute. Maxillary palpi obsolete. Antennae (f^) more than
half as long as fore wings, verticillate, having a whorl of long (5) hairs
at the end of each joint; basal joint with pecten. Tongue obsolete. Fore
wings (Fig. 2) narrow elongate, pointed, termen very oblique. 12 veins;
7 and 8 short-stalked ; 7 to costa just above apex ; ib furcate at base. Hind
wings (Fig. 2) ovate, slightly broader than the fore wing; 8 veins, all
separate; 6 and 7 parallel ; 3, 4 and 5 equidistant. Posterior tibiae rough-
haired above.

Type : Dorata virgatclla, n. sp.

This genus is not closely related to any described genus, but
will, I believe, find its natural place between the C/iimabache
and the Aplota groups of the CEcophorida* I should not be
surprised if the females will be found to be wingless.

The two following species of this genus are the largest Tineids,
in alar expanse, known from North America:

With fore wings striate virgatella

With fore wings plain inornatella

Dorata virgatella, n. sp.

Labial palpi dirty yellowish white. Head and thorax yellowish. Fore
wings light creamy buff" colored with darker longitudinal streaks of light
clay color; these streaks follow the venation and are just as wide as the in
tervals of the ground color (Fig. 2). Cilia dirty white. Hind wings shining
*3<'i !</.-<> a lance.

124 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY

straw colored. Abdomen yellowish fuscous. Legs whitish, shaded on
the outside with fuscous. Alar expanse 38 mm.

Madera Canyon, Santa Rita Mts., Arizona, June (E. A.
Schwarz), ^.

Type. No. 77^2, U. S. National Museum.

FIG. 2. Wings and palpi of Dorata virgatella Busck.

Dorata inornatella, n. sp.

Labial palpi dirty white. Head and thorax light yellowish. Fore
wings uniformly light yellowish gray. Hind wings shining straw colored.
Abdomen yellowish fuscous. Legs whitish, shaded with fuscous. Alar
expanse 36 mm.

Huachuca Mts., Arizona, August (E. J. Oslar), $.
Type. No. 7783, U. S. National Museum.

Mr. Schwarz called attention to the desirability of a more
thorough exploration of the isolated mountain ranges in southern
Arizona. From the little that is known of these regions it is safe
to say that a great many species will be found there that do not
occur in the corresponding zones of the plateau region of northern
Arizona, where the fauna is very little different from that of other
parts of the Rocky Mountains. Mr. Busck, on being questioned
as to the feeding habits of this genus, replied that nothing is
known concerning their habits, but that the larva? of the genera
most nearly allied to them spin webs and feed within them. Dr.
Dyar said that, in his opinion, the structure of the palpi in the
genus Dorata shows that this genus is not closely allied to the
genera whose feeding habits Mr. Busck mentioned, and that,
therefore, it would be unsafe to draw conclusions as to the feed
ing habits.

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Mr. Caudell presented for publication the following paper :
THE SYNONYMY OF CEDIPODA CINCTA THOMAS.
By A. N. CAUDELL.

In 1870,* Thomas described his CEdipoda cincta, and a curious
condition has followed, for we now have two species based on
that one description Mcstobregma cinctum and Trimcrotropis
ciucta. It is obvious that one must be changed, as two specific
names cannot properly be based on one description.

Six years after making the original description Thomas re
ferred his species with doubt to the genus Mestobregma^ and
four years later treated of it under that genus J But at that time the
genera were not clearly defined and the characters used by Thomas
as of generic value were inadequate for the separation of the two in
sects under discussion. In 1884, Saussure located Thomas' species,
from his description, in the genus Trimerotropis\ A careful
study of Thomas' descriptions shows that they apply much better
to a species of Trimerotropis than to a member of the genus
Mestobregma. While many of the characters given apply
equally well to either, certain ones apply only to Trimerotropis.
Such are the following: Disk of the posterior lobe of the pro-
notum nearly flat and with the posterior angle greater than a right
angle ; median carina of the thorax only a raised line ; posterior
femora not reaching the tip of the abdomen in the female. No
character mentioned in the description is inapplicable to a mem
ber of the genus Trimerotropis, and the type mentioned by
McNeillH belongs to that genus. Taken all together, it seems
well to consider Trimerotropis cincta to be the species eligibly
based on Thomas' original description. This being accepted, it
leaves the insect now known as Mestobregma cinctum to be
dealt with. As a new specific name seems inevitable, I propose
the name thomasi. The synonymy of the two species will thus
stand as follows :

1. Trimerotropis cincta Thomas.

CEdipodd cincta Thomas.

Mestobregma cinctum Thomas (not Bruner, Scudder, etc.).

2. Mestobregma thomasi Caudell.

Mestobregma cinctum Bruner, Scudder, etc. (not Thomas).

* Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., pp 8o-8r, 1870.

fBull. 111. Mus. Nat. Hist., i, p. 65, 1876.

\ Kept. Ent. 111., ix. pp. 90, 95, 113-114, iSSo.

Prodr. CEdip., pp. 171-172, 1884.

|| The insect Saussure had before him, however, was not Thomas' species,
but one described some years previous by Scudder as Trimerotropis vin-
ctilata.

f Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxm, pp. 414-415, 1901.

126 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY

The following note has been presented for publication by
Dr. Ashmead :

NEW GENERIC NAMES IN THE CHALCIDOIDEA.
By WILLIAM H. ASHMEAD.

Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell has called my attention to the m
of several genera in my Classification of the Chalcid Flies*
are preoccupied in other departments of zoology and which must
be changed. For one of these a subsequently proposed name can
be resurrected ; for the others, new names are here proposed :
Eufroggattia, n. n.

Froggattia Ashmead (not Horvath, 1902), Mem. Carnegie Museum, i,
No. 4, p. 238, 1904.
Eukcebelea, n. n.

Kcebelea Ashmead (not Baker, 1897), Mem. Carnegie Museum, i, No. 4,
p. 238, 1904
Eusayia, n. n.

Sayiella Ashmead (not Dall, 1885), Mem. Carnegie Museum, i, No. 4,
p. 253, 1904.
Zaischnopsis, n. n.

Ischnopsis Ashmead (not Walsingham, 1881), Mem. Carnegie Museum,
i, No. 4, p. 289. 1904.
Prospaltella, n. n.

Prospalta Howard (not Walker, 1857), Ins. Life, vn, p. 6, 1894.
Alophomyia, n. n.

Alophus Ashmead (not Schonherr, 1826), Mem. Carnegie Museum, i,
No. 4, p. 353, 1904.
Euryophrys Forster.

Euryophrys Forster, Hym. Stud., n, p 144, -1856.

Calypso Haliday (not Risso, 1816), Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., p. 295.
1843.

* Mem. Carnegie Museum, i, No. 4, 1904.
[ISSUED MAY 21, 1904.]

TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER.

PAGE.

ASHMEAD, WILLIAM H. : Remarks on Honey Bees, 120; New generic

names in the Chalcidoidea , 126

BENTON, FRANK: The specific name of the common Honey-Bee 71

BUSCK, AUGUST: A new Tineid genus from Arizona 123

CAUDELL, A. N. : The synonymy of CEdipoda cincta Thomas 125

CoqyiLLETT, D. W. : NewDiptera from Central America, 90; [Notes

on the larva and pupa of Pseudoweisea suturalis Schwarz] 119

CURRIE, ROLLA P. : Notes on some Hemerobiidse from Arizona and
California, 79; Hemerobiidas from the Kootenay District of

British Columbia 81

DYAR, HARRISON G. : Additions to the List of North American Lep-
idoptera, No. i, 62; Note on the Larva of an Hawaiian Pyralid
(Omiodes accepta Butler), 65 ; Note on the Larva of Therina
somniaria Hulst, 76 ; Note on the Larva of Melanchroia geome-
troides Walker, 77 ; Note on the genus Leucophobetron Dyar,
77; Additions to the List of North American Lepidoptera,

No. 2 * 103

SCHWARZ, E. A. : A new Coccinellid enemy of the San Jos6 scale 118

TITUS, E. S. G. : Some new Osmiinse in the United States National

Museum 98

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ON THE SPECIES OF SPHENOPHORUS HITHERTO CON
SIDERED AS SIMPLEX LECONTE.*

By F. H. CHITTENDEN.

Since the publication of Sphenophorus simplex by LeContef
there has been discovered, and is present in most large collec
tions, a series of a considerably larger species which at first
glance, with exception of an occasional abnormal individual, can
readily be separated from the true simplex which was described
from San Juan and Fort Yuma, California. The size of the ser
ies of simplex which Dr. Horn had at hand when he reviewed
the genus Sphenophorus in 1873,! was less than a third of an
inch. The other species which the writer has mentioned fre
quently measures half an inch and sometimes a little more. It is
true that this second species, to which I propose to give the name
of mormon, since it is found chiefly in Utah, is very closely re
lated to simplex, as evidenced by the similarity of the sexes, and
it is evident also that they had a common ancestor, or one may
possibly be an offshoot of the other. During July, 1903, Mr. H.
F. Wickham captured still a third form belonging to this group,

*This paper was presented for publication with No. 2 of the Proceed
ings but excluded for lack of space. Publication Committee.

tProc. Acad. Sci. Phila., 1859, P- 7-

+ Contributions to a Knowledge of the Curculionidae of thellnited States,
P- 4*3-

128 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY

and presented the National Museum with a good series. The
study of a very large series shows that although a few individ
uals of simplex, chiefly from Utah, approach in some few charac
ters a tendency to merge into mormon from the same State,
nevertheless they can be separated by characters which will be
furnished in 'the accompanying table. The latter species is not
known and may not occur in California, and it is much less vari
able than is the true simplex. The third species, which I have
named distichlidis, is apparently known only from the vicinity of
Amedee. California. Some of the characters, and particularly
those of the sexes furnished in the description of mormon, have
not previously been noted in this group to my knowledge. The
following synopsis is furnished :

Rostrum without carinae, or, if present, feebly indicated and short.
Scutellum variable, feebly broadly concave.

Elytra subopaque, thorax normally shining ; discal stria; nar
row and shallow and less distinctly punctate; sutural striae
quite or nearly straight ; intervals alternately very minutely
uni- and bi-seriately punctulate. Anterior tibiae seldom ser
rate inside. Pvgidium normally with distinct lateral apical
tufts of hairs, of 9 distinctly bilaterally concave.

simplex LeConte

Rostrum strongly carinate at middle and at sides, carinae long.
Scutellum somewhat variable, channeled at middle.

Elytra and thorax normally shining; dibcal striae very wide,
deep and distinctly punctate; sutural strite outwardly curved
at base; intervals distinctly punctulate with two or three
rows. Anterior tibiae and sometimes all distinctly serrate in
side. Pygidium without tufts of hair; of 9 not bilaterally
concave or feebly so.

First and second abdominal segments 9 distinctly separate.

mormon, n. sp.

Elytra and thorax subopaque; discal striae moderately wide,
deep and punctate ; sutural curved ; intervals 1,2,3 and 5 bi-
or tri-seriately punctulate. Anterior tibiae seldom serrate in
side.

First and second abdominal segments 9 connate or subcon-
nate disttckltdis, n. sp.

Sphenophorus mormon, n. sp.

Of very similar form and appearance to simplex, but much larger. Sur
face without coating of any kind. General color polished jet black, or
with the elytra piceous and the entire dorsal surface more or less polished.
Legs black or dark piceous.

Rostrum three-fifths as long as the thorax, moderately arcuate, mode
rately nearly uniformly compressed, more narrowly at the apex, strongly

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carinate on anterior margin and at the sides, the carinas extending from
the dilated portion of the base to near the apex ; base moderately wide,
suddenly dilated over the scrobes, feebly or not canaliculate, interocular
fossa distinct, large and shallow, from which a fine impressed line leads
to the median carina; anterior face of apex convex; surface nearly uni
formly finely and densely punctate. Head finely sparsely punctulate.

Thorax moderately convex, about one-fourth longer than wide, basal
half subparallel, apical half moderately arcuately narrower to apex, which
is rather strongly constricted; surface moderately deeply, finely, and
somewhat sparsely punctate, punctures larger and sparse in front of scu-
tellum, finer and dense along the basal margin. Scutellum channeled at
middle.

Elytra one-fifth wider than thorax, gradually narrower toward apex ;
striae punctate throughout their length, first stria strongly curved at sides
of scutellum, feebly punctate at base, the others gradually more distinctly
to the sides. Intervals flat, subequal in width, variable in punctuation,
the first and second and sometimes the third and fourth tri-seriately punc
tulate, the others irregularly with punctulation in one, two or three rows.
Pygidium moderately coarsely and densely punctate, punctures naked or
bearing minute yellow hairs, without apical tufts.

Lower surface finely, rather densely punctate, feebly on prosternum
and middle of abdominal segments, sparsely in the middle of the meta-
stsrnum, densely in the apical region of the last segment.

Male. Metasternum broadly and moderately concave, first abdominal
and a portion of the second segment broadly feebly concave: tibiae angu-
late and strongly fimbriate with long yellow hairs on the inner surface
beyond the angle, the posterior pair very strongly angulated ; pygidium
subtruncate with rounded sides.

Female. Metasternum feebly concave, abdominal segments convex;
posterior tibiae not strongly angulated, less fimbriate; pygidium feebly
bilaterally concave, rounded at apex.

Length 10-13 mm; width 3.6-4.5 mm.

Salt Lake City, Utah, April 19 (H. Soltau) ; Salt Lake, June
14 (Hubbard and Schwarz); Provo, Utah (H. F. Wickham) ;
Reno, Nev., July, 1902 (H. F. Wickham) ; Laramie, Wyo.,
April 23, 1888 (H. Soltau); Helena, Mont., May i (Hubbard
and Schwarz); "Dakota" (H. Ulke, i ex.) ; " Grand Coulee,
Wash., Steamboat Rock, 10 July, 1902" (C. V. Piper.)

Collected in salt marshes in the vicinity of Salt Lake by Messrs.
Hubbard and Schwarz.

Type. No. 7877, U. S. National Museum. Described from
abundant material.

A few obviously much worn individuals with reddish elytra
have subopaque thorax and elytra, and one has reddish legs.

130 KNTOMOL01-1ICAL SOCIETY

Sphenophorus distichlidis, n. sp.

Similar to mormon with which it agrees in the structure of the rostrum
and, nearly, in the sculpture of the elytra. It averages a little smaller,
with the entire surface subopaque, and with the legs and less frequently
the elytra and thorax rufous or piceous. The punctua'ion is feeble, not
so strong on the thorax, metasternum or abdominal segments as in sim
plex. The tibiae are less angulate and more finely fimbriate, and the ante
rior tibiae are normally without inside serration.

Male. First and second abdominal segments moderately distinct ; pos
terior tibias more strongly angulate and fimbriate.

Female. First and second abdominal segments connate or nearly so at
the middle; posterior tibiae feebly angulate and finely and sparsely fim
briate.

Length 8.5-11 5 mm; width 3.2-4.0 mm.

Amedee, Cal., 4,200 ft, July 11-28, 1903. Collected by Mr.
H. F. Wickham who has kindly presented a good series to the
National Museum on Distichlidis spicata, a maritime grass
which grows in salt marshes and saline spots.

Type. No. 7878, U. S. National Museum.

Sphenophorus simplex LeConte.

In this species the normal shining jet black color is varied
by individuals with more or less rufous legs, and the elytra are
frequently piceous in evidently fully developed specimens. One
otherwise deep black individual with velvety elytra has the base
of the elytra and the legs bright rufous. In the smallest individ
uals there are fewer rows of punctulations in the elytral intervals
than in the larger. ones, and in the specimen last mentioned they
are so minute as to be almost indistinguishable.

The following is added to the recorded locality list :

In California : Palm Springs, February 2, 17 (H. G. Hubbard),

Los Angeles (D. W. Coquillett), Panamint Valley, April 19 (A.

Koebele), Harold, March 31 (A. B. Eells), San Diego (G. H.

Field). In Utah : Salt Lake City (H. Soltau), Salt Lake, June

14 (Hubbard and Schwarz).

ON THE SPECIES OF SPHENOPHORUS HITHERTO CON
SIDERED AS PLACIDUS SAY.

By F. H. CHITTENDEN.

When Thomas Say in his " Descriptions of North American
Curculionides," etc.,* described Rhynchophorus placidus with

* Complete Writings, Thomas Say, etc., Lee. Ed., 1859, i, p. 290

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the type locality " United States " he little guessed the trouble
that this and other Sphenophori described at the same time
would cause to the Coleopterist of the future. This was in 1831.
When Horn, in 1873, in his Contributions to a Knowledge of
the Curculionidae of the United States* brought together under
Sphenophorus placidus no less than seven other names as
synonyms, this merely added to the trouble. By careful study of
many specimens, described and undescribed, that might possibly
be attributed to Say's rectus or immtinis^ I am unable to find any
which fits either description. The characterizations of Gyllen-
hal and Boheman in Schoenherr's work on the Curculionidae
are equally difficult of elucidation, and from all the circumstances
in the case I feel convinced that only two species of this group
can rightfully retain the older names, namely, venatus Say and
reticulaticollis Boheman. The latter is described from u Cali
fornia" which, at the time of its description, included a much
larger territory than at present, and this locality and the descrip
tion might very well be perpetuated for a species which I have
assigned to that name. Several species have been present for
years in collections under the name of placidus, in accordance
with Horn's definition, which is, in brief, all Sphenophori of our
fauna having a u slight fossa at the anterior median portion of the
thorax immediately behind the apical constriction." The writer
has been able to bring under this character seven species which
cannot be placed elsewhere. All appear to be quite distinct,
with the possible exceotion of vcstitus^ which is very different
from venatus when we compare specimens of the former from
Florida and of the latter from New England or Long Island.
There is a possibility of gradation in an intermediate locality, but
this has not been discovered.

Still an eighth species which has been very generally included
under placidus has been studied, and this proves to belong to an
entirely different group. It may be distinguished from any
species of the venatus group by its naked body, much longer,
perfectly cylindrical rostrum with rounded apex, longer legs,
thorax more narrowed anteriorly, broader thoracic vittae, divided
apical fossa, and punctuation, which will be defined in the spe
cific description, as well as sexual characters. It is peculiar to
the Gulf region. The" following brief analysis of the venatus
group follows :

VENATUS group.

Rostrum short, strongly and uniformly compressed, moderately or
strongly arcuate ; apex subtruncate, produced in acute point posteriorly
(sometimes abraded).

*Proc. Am. Phil. Soc., p. 426, 1873.

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Thorax with distinct apical fossa not divided in the middle; more or
less trivittate, vittae half or less the length of thorax; median vitta usually
Y-shaped, either enclosing the apical fossa or appearing as a tubercle be
hind it; lateral vittae oblique, divergent toward base of thorax.

Vestiture alutaceous, profuse or scant.

Third joint tarsi : anterior, + ; middle, ; posterior, wider than
first joint.

A synoptic table of the seven species which belong to this
group follows :

a Thoracic vittae and apical fossa well defined.

b Rostrum moderately arcuate and compressed, distinctly canaliculate
at base. Coating scant and easily abraded, not covering lower
surface or sides.

c Dorsal surface strongly and coarsely punctate. Elytral sur
face normally without inequalities; intervals alternately
strongly and less strongly elevated. Medio-basal portion
of thorax coarsely, moderately confluent. Lower surface

finely, sparsely punctate. N. E. to Tex... venatus Say

cc Dorsal surface more coarsely .punctate, usually strongly con
fluent. Elytral surface very unequal, interrupting striae and
intervals. Lower surface less finely punctate. Oregon.

coiiftuens, n. sp.

bb Rostrum shorter, more arcuate and compressed, at base coated.
Thoracic vittae narrow. Coating thin, velvety, covering most
of the body. Lower surface coarsely punctate. Thorax strongly
convex. Vittae with shallow punctures, much finer than on

interspaces. Fla., La vestitus, n. sp.

bbb Rostrum not coated. Thoracic vittae wide, black.

c Mostly black but with patches on base of rostrum, thorax and
elytra often piceous. Thoracic vittae broad, punctures
deeper, scarcely finer on vittae than on interspaces and else
where. N. M neomexicanus, n. sp.

cc Thorax variable, red, brown or black, elytra rufous or light
dull brown. Thoracic vittse still widec, finely punctate.

Ariz., Cal .ptaemtcitnsis, n. sp.

aa Thoracic vittae usually feebly developed.

b Reddish, surface coating moderately dense, gray or red, thin or
velvety. Scutellum shining black. Pygidium 9 moderately
narrowed to apex. First abdominal segment $ distinctly con
cave. Cal., N. M., D. C., Tex reticulaticollis Boheman

bb Black, surface coating gray or brown, thick and felt-like, covering

v nearly the entire body. Scutellum coated. Pygidium strongly

narrowed to apex. First abdominal segment $ flat or scarcely

concave. Tex coacforum, n. sp.

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Sphenophorus venatus Say.

Rhynchophorus venatus Say, Descr. N. A. Curculionides, p. 22, 1831 ;

Compl. Writings, Lee. Ed., i, p. 290, 1859
Sphenophorus placidus Say, Descr. N. A. Cure., p. 23, 1831 ; Lee. Ed.,

p. 290, 1859; Horn, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc., xm, p. 426, 1873;

Forbes, i6th Rept. St. Ent. Ills., f. iSSy-'SS (1890), pp. 62, 65, 70;

22d Rept. St. Ent. Ills., p. 8, 1903.
Rhynchophorus rectus Say, Descr. N. A. Cure., p. 22, 1831; Compl.

Writings, Lee. Ed., i, p. 290, 1859.
Rhynchophorus immunis Say, 1. c., p. 23; p. 290.
Sphenophorus confusus Gyllenhal, Schonherr, Gen. Cure., iv, p. 944,

1837 (fide Horn).
Sphenophorus fallax Boheman, 1. c., vin, No. 2, p. 256. 1845 (fide

Horn).

The distribution as well as salient characters are furnished in
the table. Even with these synonyms and others eliminated it is
still a very variable form.

Sphenophorus confluens, n. sp.

Form and size of veuatus, from which and all others of this group it
differs by the entire surface being more coarsely and strongly punctate,
and by other characters which will be enumerated. Black, with dark
brown pruinose coating evident at the sides and mostly abraded on the
dorsum. Rostrum short, strongly compressed, obliquely truncate and
produced in acute point posteriorly as in vestitus. Base very strongly
and coarsely punctate, with interocular puncture in the form of a very
irregular variable fossa, terminating anteriorly before or a little beyond
the dilated portion above the scrobes in a broad ill-defined acuminate
channel. Thoracic vittse, owing to strong and coarse punctuation, are
feebly defined, the space between foveate-punctate and strongly confluent.
Elvtral punctures so strong as to be subconfluent and often confluent
transversely, producing with a natural uneven surface of the intervals a
decided inequality of the entire surface. Sutural and third intervals with
strong tendency to a double series of fine punctures most evident at the
base.

Portland, Oregon (i ^, H. F. Wickham) ; Corvallis, Oregon,
April 25, May 2, June 9, Oct. (A. B. Cordley) ; ''Oregon"
(H. Ulke).

Type. No. 7908, U. S. National Museum.

The large deep punctures of the entire dorsal surface, and par
ticularly of the elytra, produce an unevenness which impart to
this insect an appearance quite different from all others in our
fauna.

It is probably quite common in Oregon, although not well
distributed in collections.

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Sphenophorus vestitus, n. sp.

Closely related to venatus, more robust; surface with a dense, rather
thin, more or less olive-tinted or brown alutaceous coating, which nor
mally completely covers the entire dorsal surface except the thoracic
vittse, rostrum, head, and portions of the legs, the lower surface except
the middle of the metasternum, and the first and last abdominal segments,
the excepted portions being polished black. Rostrum more arcuate and
compressed, with the basal dilated portion normally coated. Thorax
scarcely longer than wide, punctures between vittae frequently confluent.
Lower surface moderately coarsely and densely punctate. First abdomi
nal segment $ distinctly narrowly concave at middle, leaving an elevated
portion each side ; last segment with punctures forming a shallow fossa
at apex.

Length 9-10 mm; width 3.3-4.3 mm.

Sebastian, March 7, Capron, March 22, Enterprise, May 9,
23, and Indian River, Fla. (Hubbard and Schwarz) ; Jackson
ville, Fla., March 30 to May 23 (Wm. H. Ashmead) ; Gulf View
and Biloxi, Miss., Oct. 9 (H. Soltau) ; Savannah, Ga. (Hubbard
and Schwarz) ; New Orleans, La., March 14, Oct. 26 (H. Soltau) ;
" La."

Type. No. 7903, U. S. National Museum.

The Florida specimens are typical of the description furnished,
as are also the specimens from Mississippi and a portion from
Louisiana. Some of the remainder show a tendency toward
venatus.

Sphenophorus neomexicanus, n. sp.

Of similar form to venatus but considerably smaller, black, with base of
rostrum, thorax and elytra frequently reddish. Surface coating velvety
gray or brown, scarcely covering half the body. Rostrum with shallow
fossa at base not coaled. Thorax feebly convex, subquadrate with apical
fossa deep, vittae elevated, broad and shining, a little more finely and
deeply punctate than interspaces and sides which are covered with coating.
Scutellum black, shining, concave or divided at middle. Elytra partially
covered with coating, leaving sutural, and base of third, fourth and fifth
intervals, a large humeral and subapical spot black and shining; striae
rather fine; interval punctures distinct, large, round and remotely placed
(except sutural). Lower surface with sparse coating on sides ; sometimes
bare, abdominal segments nearly uniformly, finely and somewhat densely
punctate. Ventral concavity $ very shallow, scarcely deeper at middle
of first abdominal. Pygidial characters as in reticulaticollis.

Length 6.0-7.5 mm.; width 2.2-3.0 mm.

Albuquerque, N. M., Feb. 12, 16 (H. Soltau).

Type. No. 7904, U. S. National Museum.

It will be noticed that the above described species was col-

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lected in the same locality and on the same days as reticulaticol-
lis, but the two species have a distinct habitus and may be easily
separated, there being no intergradation in the large series ex
amined.

Sphenophorus phceniciensis, n. sp.

Form similar to -uestitus, smaller, ventral surface, head and rostrum
shining black, antennae and tarsi piceous ; thorax variable, red, brown, or
black, usually brighter on the sides of episterna; vittaa shining black;
elytra rufous or dull light brown. Dorsal surface and sides covered with
alutaceous coating, entirely grav or yellowish gray on sides, and pale
reddish on elytra.

Rostrum half as long as thorax, moderately arcuate and compressed,
surface rather strongly and finely punctate, especially at base; base
strongly dilated, suddenly above scrobes, where it is acutely angled; in-
terocular fossa pyriform ; no channel; but a short impressed line extend
ing in front of dilated portion. Apex divided anteriorly by a slightly ele
vated line, posteriorly strongly and acutely produced.

Thorax with constriction nearly as wide as long; apical constriction
strong ; posterior three-fifths of remainder subparallel or slightly arcuate ;
pattern of surface similar to venatus, apical fossa deep. Vittae very wide,
occupying fully half the disc of thorax, shining black, slightly elevated,
somewhat finely and sparsely punctate, lateral confluent with median just
in front of middle. Interspaces coarsely, rather sparsely and irregularly
punctate, sides near lateral vittee also sparsely but more finely punctate,
on lateral margin becoming more dense. Scutellum flat, shining, decliv
ous at base.

Elytra one-fifth wider than thorax, one-fourth longer than wide, rather
strongly acuminate to apex. Striae fine, finely and remotely punctate.
Intervals unequal in width, subequal in convexity; 3 widest and most
elevated, biseriately punctate ; the remainder uniseriately punctate ; i very
finely, punctures closely placed ; humeral and subapical callosities small
and smoothly shining. Lower surface somewhat densely coated, but not
more than half covered at the sides; abdominal segments nearly uni
formly, finely and somewhat densely punctate, a little more finely than at
the sides. Legs finely and sparsely punctate. Tibiae sparsely and feebly
fimbriate on inner surface ; anterior tibiae with outer angle slightly pro
longed, others obliquely truncate, with inner angle acutely produced into
a long spur; subapical spur distinct but only about one-fourth as long.
Pygidium with coarse, shallow punctures, somewhat densely placed,
coated with very short silvery hairs, with minute tufts each side of apex,
which is moderately narrowed and rounded.

As the above description was drawn entirely from female ex
amples, and the male, which has been recently received, is rep
resented by a single specimen, the sexual differences may be
found less striking with more material for comparison.

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Male. Lower surface more strongly punctate; especially in ventral
concavity which is moderately deep, strongly sloping toward the center,
especially in the metasternum; pygidium subpentagonal with rounded
base.

Female. Pygidium narrower, base less broadly rounded.

Length 7.0-7.2 mm ; width 2.5-2.9 mm.

Phoenix, Ariz., and "Arizona" (i tf, 3? 9, Colls. H. C. Fall
and Chas. Palm); Fresno, Cal., May 21 (i 9, Hubbard and
Schwarz).

Type. No 7905, U. S. National Museum.

Although closely resembling in a superficial manner others of
the venatus group, this species has very pronounced characters,
showing some affiliation to neomexicanus. From the latter it is
separable by its finer punctuation alone, besides being more
robust, its proportions resembling those of vestitus. It is not
improbable that the coloration of the species may vary still more,
since none of the specimens examined are true to any type ; and
it is also probable that the same species extends into Mexico.

Sphenophorus reticulaticollis Boheman.

Of the same form as vena/us, a little smaller; body dull red, rostrum
(except fossa at base), femora, tibiae and occiput black; surface with a soft
velvety natural alutaceous coating, mostly red on the dorsal surface and
gray on the sides, completely covering the dorsal surface, except portions
of the thoracic vittse, the scutellum, humeral, and subapical callosities,
not covering the metasternum and middle of abdomen. Punctuation of
entire surface of body distinct and rather dense; on thorax, which is
feebly convex, nearly uniform and but little finer on the feebly elevated
and very narrow vittae; on elytra strial punctures large, interval punc
tures very fine and obscure, on sutural intervals minute and very closely
placed. Metasternum and first abdominal segment nearty uniformly
sparsely foveate-punctate, second abdominal but little coarser than third
and fourth. In $ the ventral concavity is shallow but moderately deep
in the middle of the first abdominal, and the pygidium is subquadrangular
with apex rounded. In 9 pygidium is somewhat pentagonal with minute
lateral tufts.

Length 7.5-9.5 mm; width 2.8-3.6 mm.

Palm Springs, Cal., July 2 (Hubbard and Schwarz) ; Los An
geles Co., Cal. (D. W. Coquillett) ; Albuquerque, N. M., Feb. 12.
16 (H. Soltau) ; Del Rio, Tex., July 23, 24, 955 ft. (H. F. Wick-
ham) ; Washington, D. C., August 9, 1881 (Th. Pergande).

Sphenophorus coactorum, n. sp.

Form similar to venatus, black, with thick pale gray or brown natural
coating, felt-like and persistent, almost completely covering the surface,
including the head and base of the rostrum, femora, most of the tibiae and

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the entire dorsal surface, the thorax except a small black patch on the
proepimera, another on the middle of the metathorax, the abdomen except
those small black areas on the middle of the first and last segments and
the anterior half of the second. It partially obscures the elytral punctua
tion but not the thoracic. Thorax nearly uniformly punctate, lateral vittae
indistinct, apex of median sometimes exposed, apical fossa more or less
indistinct. Scutellum coated. Pygidium $ subquadrate, rounded each
side of apex, of 9 subtriangular, about one-fourth longer than wide.
Metasternum very coarsely sparsely foveate-punctate, remainder of ventral
surface rather coarsely sparsely punctate, very sparse on second, third
and fourth abdominal. Ventral concavity $ very shallow, scarcely differ
ent from 9-

Length 7.0-9.5 mm; width 2.5-3.8 mm.

Edinburg, Texas (Coll. Chittenden) ; Brownsville, Texas,
July (H. F. Wickham) ; "Tex."
Type. No. 796? U. S. National Museum.

No other species known to the writer as inhabiting the United
States is provided with such a dense felt-like covering.

NEW DIPTERA FROM INDIA AND AUSTRALIA.
By D. W. CoqyiLLETT.

Mr. George Compere, a native of this country and for several
years an inspector of fruit pests at Los Angeles, California, but
at present the government entomologist of West Australia, re
cently transmitted to Dr. L. O. Howard, for naming, an interest
ing series of bred insects from that country and India, the Diptera
of which were assigned to the writer for study and report. An
extended search through the literature of these and the neighbor
ing regions has failed to reveal any descriptions applicable to five
of the species, and in the belief that they are as yet undescribed,
they are duly characterized herewith :

Family TACHINID^.
Tachina psychidivora, n. sp.

Black, the face, cheeks, palpi, scutellum, and front angles of the second
and third segments of the abdomen, yellow. Vertex nearly as wide as
either eye, sides of front yellowish gray pruinose, the face and cheeks
white, no orbital bristles, frontals descending on sides of face halfway to
the vibrissaB, the latter situated distinctly above the front edge of the oral
margin, ridges bristly halfway to the lowest frontal bristle, cheeks more
than one-fourth as wide as the eye height; antennae three-fourths as long
as the face, the third joint broad, nearlv three times as long as the sec-

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ond, arista thickened on the basal half, the penultimate joint slightly
longer than wide; head at the lower part nearly as long as at base of an
tennae, eyes bare, ocellar bristles strong, directed obliquely forward.
Thorax gray pruinose and with four black vittae, four pairs of postsutural
dorsocentral bristles, three sternopleurals in a longitudinal row. Abdomen
polished, the broad bases of the second, third and fourth segments gray
pruinose, no discal bristles on the first three segments. Middle tibiae
bearing three bristles on the outer-anterior side near the middle, the hind
ones ciliate on the outer-anterior side and with two longer bristles inter
mixed, pulvilli greatly elongated. Wings hyaline, third vein bearing six
bristles near the base, bend of fourth vein with a distinct stump of a vein.
Length 10 mm.

West Australia. A male specimen bred from a bagworm.

Family ORTALID^.
Ortalis comperei, n. sp.

Head narrow, much higher than wide, whitish-yellow, center of occiput,
a large spot on each cheek and a broad stripe in middle of face extending
its entire length and crossing the clypeus, black, frontal vitta very nar
row, yellow; front much longer than wide, narrowing towards the vertex,
three pairs of frontal bristles and two rows of hairs between the two rows ;
antennae one-half as long as the face, orange-yellow, the third joint
slightly longer than the second, arista long-plumose; proboscis and palpi
dark brown. Body short and broad, bluish green, rather thinly gray prui
nose, mesonotum bearing one pair of acrostichal bristles, two dorsocen-
trals, one supra-alar and two humeral, scutellum bearing six bristles.
Wings whitish hyaline, costa broadly bordered with a brown stripe from
base to apex of the auxiliary vein where the stripe narrows and in the first
basal cell terminates in a broad brown cross-band which passes over the
small and posterior cross-veins ; the posterior basal portion of the wing
is marked with several brown spots, of which one is in the second basal
cell, two in the discal, two in the anal, one large and five small ones in
the third posterior, four in the axillary and one on the alula; in the
apical portion of the wing beyond the brown cross-band are two more
brown cross-bands, the first of which begins on the costa just before apex
of the second vein and reaches a point half way across the first posterior
cell, the second fills the apex of the submarginal cell and extends to the hind
margin of the wing at the middle of the hind edge of the second posterior
cell; small cross-vein at three-fourths of the length of the discal cell;
lower outer angle of the anal cell obtuse. Legs black, the front ones ex
cept apices of their tibiae, the middle tibise and their tarsi, also the hind
tarsi yellowish, the last two tarsal joints brown. Length 4 mm.

Bangalore, India. Two male specimens bred from guavas by
Mr. George Compere, for whom this fine species is named.

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Rivellia frugalis, n. sp.

Black, the front and middle of upper part of the occiput reddish-brown,
first two joints of antennae and the tarsi yellow, apices of the tarsi brown,
thorax tinged with greenish, the abdomen with bluish. Antennae nearly
as long as the face, the third joint nearly four times as long as the
second, the lower anterior corner rather acute, arista bare. Thorax and
scutellum thinly grayish pruinose, scutellum bearing four bristles. Ab
domen not pruinose. somewhat rugose. Wings hyaline, marked with
four brown, rather narrow cross-bands; the first begins at apex of aux
iliary vein and extends to the fourth vein; the second extends from apex
of first vein to the fifth vein, passing over the small cross vein; the third
starts on the costa slightly beyond the middle of the distance between
apices of the first and second veins and passes over the hind cross veins,
stopping at the fifth vein; the last band begins at the costal end of the
third and borders the wing to apex of the fourth vein; small cross vein
near middle of the discal cell. Length 3 mm.

Colombo, Ceylon. A female specimen.
Rivellia sinuosa, n. sp.

Head reddish brown, the face and occiput except middle of upper part
of the latter, black; sides of front narrowly white pruinose; antennae yel
lowish, as long as the face, the third joint three times as long as the
second, arista short-pubescent, proboscis and palpi dark brown. Body
bluish-green, thorax and scutellum very thinly grayish pruinose, scutel
lum bearing four bristles ; abdomen not pruinose, somewhat rugose. Legs
black, tarsi yellow, their apices brown. Wings hyaline, a broad brown
stripe extends along the costa from base to apex of the auxiliary vein,
then narrows and in the submarginal and first basal cells ends in a wide
brown cross band that extends from apex of first vein, over the small cross
vein to hind margin of the wing just before apex of fifth vein where it
unites with a second wide brown cross-band that extends obliquely to the
costa at apex of marginal cell and continues along the costa to apex of the
fourth vein ; a short, broad brown cross-band extends from lower edge of
the costal stripe near the base of the wing, filling the bases of the discal
and third posterior cells. Length 3 mm.

Bangalore, India. A male specimen.

Family TRYPETID^.
Dacus diversus, n. sp.

Head and its appendages yellow, base of proboscis brownish, face of
the male unmarked, that of the female with a transverse black fascia a short
distance above the oral border, front with a central brown spot and a row
of three brown dots along each eye, vertex with a narrow black fascia pro
duced forward in the middle so as to include the lowest ocellus, occiput

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with a brown vitta. on either side of the center, the two connected at their
upper ends by a brown fascia; antennae slightly longer than the face,
arista bare. Body black, the following markings yellow : humeral cal
losities, a short streak in center of mesonotum. a vitta situated a short
distance above each lateral margin of the mesonotum, extending from the
suture to the hind margin, a fascia extending from the front end of each
of these vittse to the upper part of the sternopleura, the prosternum
largely, the scutellum, a large spot on either side of the metanotum and
including the hypopleura, the hind margins of the abdominal segments,
very narrow on the fourth, and the base of the ovipositor; mesonotum
marked with a median pair of gray pruinose vittae which extend from the
front end to a short distance beyond the suture; abdomen devoid of black
bristles and of long black hairs ; ovipositor depressed, slightly longer than
the fourth and fifth abdominal segments taken together. Legs of male
almost wholly yellow, those of the female yellow, the apices of the femora
and whole of the tibiae black, apices of tarsi brownish. Wings hyaline,
base of marginal cell brownish, costa narrowly bordered with brown from
apex of auxiliary vein to a point midway between apices of the third and
fourth veins, scarcely widening in its apical portion, anal cell filled with
brown, which color encroaches somewhat on the third posterior cell.
Length 4 to 5 mm.

Colombo. Ceylon, and Bangalore, India. Five males and
three females, bred from oranges.

TWO NEW SPECIES OF CADDICE-FL1ES.
By NATHAN BANKS.

The following two species of caddice-flies were collected at
Wellington, British Columbia, by two local collectors, Rev. G.
W. Taylor and Mr. Theo. Bryant. Both are large and striking
species, one handsomely marked for a caddice-fly ; the other of
rather peculiar shape. One of them constitutes a new genus,
GlypJtopsyche, which includes also a species recently described
as Glyphotcelius bellus. I have named the species in honor ot
the collectors, who have done so much to make known the insect
fauna of their region.

Halesus taylori, n. sp.

Head black, with black hair, and some yellowish hair on clypeus ; palpi
yellowish ; antennae black, beneath faintly, but plainly, crenulate, basal
joint not as long as vertex; prothorax yellow, with long yellow hair;
thorax black, lateral lobes of mesothorax and the mesoscutellum yellow,
and with yellow hair. Abdomen black; legs yellow, with black spines.
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brown, and the pterostigma brown; the subcosta and radius narrowly
bordered with brown, the radial sector, median and cubitus more heavily
margined; the mark on the median does not reach the posterior anasto
mosis; the region behind the anal vein is brown, the apical veins are
bordered with brown on their apical two-thirds, the first and second sub-
apicals are marked mostly on their basal portions with brown, and the
third is brown to the tip; the cell behind it entirely brown. Sometimes
these apical markings are heavier so as to nearly run together; however
there is always a pale area across basal part of the apicals. In the hind
wings the ptemstigma is brown and the apex narrowly clouded. The
venation is very similar to that of Halesns hottis except that the first and
fifth apical cells do not extend basad of the anastomosis. Expanse 35 mm.

Several specimens from Wellington, British Columbia (Taylor
and Bryant).

Glyphopsyche, n. gen.

Spurs i, 3, 4. Apical margin of forewings distinctly and evenly exca
vate ; pterostigma elliptical, almost closed at base by the sudden up-bend
ing of the vein ; discal cell very long; membrane of wings finely rugulose,
more distinct at pterostigma; basal joints of antennae almost as long as
vertex.

This genus has much resemblance to Glyphotcelius, but differs
in more prominent pterostigma, in the much smaller prothorax,
and different shape of head.

Type. G. bryanti.

Glyphotcelius bellus Banks, recently described, also falls in
this genus. It differs from the type not only in color, but in
having the ist apical cell extending a little on discal cell, and the
^th apical not acute at base, although narrowed.

Glyphopsyche bryanti, n. sp.

Head black, with some short white hair, particularly prominent near
margin of eyes ; palpi black; antennae yellowish brown; prothorax yel
lowish above, with white hair, and black hair on the sides ; mesothorax
dark brown, with a broad grayish-white stripe in'the middle, less distinct
on metathorax. Abdomen dark brown ; legs dull yellowish, with black
spines, the tips of tibiae and tarsal joints narrowly brown. Wings brown,
darker beyond anastomosis ; the costal area (and sometimes elsewhere)
shows many pale irregular spots ; before middle of wings there is an
oblique white space between median and cubital veins. In the base of the
third apical there is a very distinct circular white spot. At the margin
there is a narrow white spot in the middle of each apical cell ; those in
the subapicals I and II are broader and nearly touch, that in the third sub-
apical is very small ; behind the anal veins are a few pale spots and streaks.
The first apical does not extend back on the discal cell, and the fifth is

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acute or even short pedicellate at base. In the hind wings the apical part
is faintly fumose, and the pterostigma a little darker.
Expanse 38 mm.

Two specimens from Wellington, British Columbia (Theo.
Bryant).

TWO NEW FORMS OF CENE1S Huebner.
By HARRISON G. DYAR.

Mr. Merritt Gary collected a number of specimens of CEnels
(Chionobas) in British America in 1903, and among them are
two forms that do not agree with any known to me.

GEneis caryi, n. var.

Gray brown above, washed with dark ferruginous red submarginally on
fore wings, over most of surface of hind wings; two large black ocelli on
fore wings above veins 2 and 5, respectively, one on the hind wings near
anal angle, the three minutely white pupilled and repeated below. Fore
wings below reddish on the disk and inner margin ; hind wings contrast
ingly marbled in black and white, the median band strongly white edged.

One cT, Smith Landing, Athabasca, June 13, 1903.

7ype. No. 8046, U. S. National Museum.

Near norna Thunberg, but the red color of the wings is much
darker and more rust colored than in this form or in katahdin
Newcomb.

CEneis nahanni, n. sp.

Blackish above, washed with ferruginous* orown, trie veins darker, the
markings of underside showing. A small ocellus or none above vein 5 on
fore wings, two to five on hind wings, the one above vein 5 largest, the rest
small or absent. Hind wings below black and white, coarsely strigose,
somewhat as in uhleri Reakirt and 'vtiruim Edwards, but much more
densely, the white of the wing being largely obscured. Median band
weakly indicated; ocelli black with white pupils; fore wings shaded with
red over the disk.

One cT, one 9, Nahanni Mts., Mackenzie, 2,500 feet, July 16,
1903.

Type. No. 8047, U. S. National Museum.

Differs entirely in color from uhleri, and in the coarseness of
the markings below from the forms of norna.

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DIVERSE MOSQUITO LARVAE THAT PRODUCE SIMILAR

ADULTS.

By HARRISON G. DYAR and FREDERICK KNAB.

In going over somewhat carefully the material in Culicid larvas
that has been gathered by Dr. Howard to be figured, the writers
have met in more than one instance with diverse larvae that pro
duced adults so similar that they have not been differentiated
with the material now at hand. As examples we cite :

Culex cantans Meigen.

1. What we have considered as the normal form has the air
tube about three-and-a-half times as long as wide, the pecten con
sisting of two rows of teeth with the distal two or three detached.
The tracheal tubes are broad, band-shaped, slightly waved seg-
mentarily, broadened within the air tube. The long abdominal
hairs on segments 3 to 6 are single ; the hairs on the head are in
tufts of two or three centrally, five in the tuft next the antennae.

2. The second form has the air tube about four times as long
as wide, the pecten of evenly spaced teeth without any detached.
The tracheal tubes are very narrow, uniform, strongly bent seg-
mentarily, especially in abdominal segment 7, where they form
acute angles, likewise narrow within the air tube. The long ab
dominal hairs on segments 3 to 6 are double ; the hairs on the
head have three to four hairs in the central tufts, about nine in
the tuft next the antennas.

Both forms have been taken at Springfield, Mass., by Dr. Geo.
Dimmock and Mr. F. Knab, in temporary pools in fields and
woods formed by the melting of the snow in the spring.

There must be two species here in spite of the apparent simi
larity of the adults.

Culex restuans Theobald.

1. The usual form has the air tube about three-and-a-half times
as long as wide, slightly fusiform, strongly tapering to the tip,
furnished with about six scattered hairs, coarse, single, only the
one nearest the tip sometimes in the form of a small tuft. The
anal processes may be much elongated.

2. The other form has the tube about four times as long as
wide, slender, not fusiform, gradually tapering, the only hair a
small tuft beyond the outer third. Otherwise, as in the usual
form, the antennas and the peculiarly shaped labial plate being
the same.

Both forms have been taken at Cummington, Mass., by Mr.
F. Knab, in a ' ; pothole " in a rock, about six feet above the level
of the Westfield river, in company with C. atropalpus Coq.

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The usual form we have from many other places, such as St.
Anthony Park, Minn. (F. L. Washhurn) ; Center Harbor, N. H.
(H. G. Dyar) ; Durham, N. H. (H. G. Dyar) ; Ithaca, N. Y.
(O. A. Johannsen) ; Saranac Tnn, N. Y. (O. A. Johannsen) ;
Lahaway, N. J. (J. T. Brakeley) ; Baltimore, Md. (Dyar and
Caudellf; Washington, D. C. "(H. G. Dyar); St. Asaph, Va.
(F. C. Pratt), in temporary pools, roadside puddles, water bar
rels, etc. The second form has been mentioned by Dr. John B.
Smith.* as collected by him at Lahawav, N. J., and he considers
it specifically distinct from restuans. The differential character
which he mentions between the labial plates of the two forms is,
however, not existant in our specimens.

These forms are, we think, not specifically distinct, as we have
some specimens that indicate an intergradation of the characters.

Culex impiger Kirby.

1. The usual form has the air tube about two-and-a-half times
as long as wide, thick, tapered outwardly, the pecten followed bv
a single tuft. Anal segment with slight tufts before the barred
area. The lateral comb of the Sth abdominal segment consists of
a large patch of small spines over three rows deep. On the head
the upper frontal tuft consists of six hairs, the lower of three, the
one near the antennae of seven.

2. The other form has the air tube of the same proportions, but
the pecten Iras three or four large detached teeth which extend
well beyond the tuft, almost to the apex of the tube. There are
besides on the ventral aspect, two small tufts and two rows of
long tufts on the dorsal side. The anal segment has ventral tufts
almost to the base. The lateral comb of the Sth abdominal seg
ment consists of a small patch of large, thorn-shaped spines in an
irregular double row. The head hairs have three in the upper
frontal tuft, one in the lower, seven in the tuft near the antenna;.

The first form we have abundantly irom Kaslo, B. C.,f the sec
ond form from Kaslo also, and from Springfield, Mass., where it
was collected by Dr. Geo. Dimmock, under the number 2173.
At present the adults have not been separated ; but in this case
we hope that they may yet prove to be distinguishable, for our
bred series of the second form is very small and not well pre
served. Better material may show differences. The larvae are
certainly abundantly distinct.

*Ent News, xni, p. 303, 1902.

t Dyar, Proc. Ent Soc. Wash., vi, p. 37, 1904.

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APRIL 7, 1904.

The rS6th regular meeting 1 was held at the Saengerbund Hall,
3140 street, N.W., Vice-President Banks in the chair, and Messrs.
Ashmead, Barber, Benton. Busck, Caudell, Currie, Dyar, Gill,
Heidemann, Kotinsky, Morris, Patten, Schwarz and Ulke, mem
bers, and Mr. Frederick Knab, visitor, present.

Mr. Schwarz exhibited some fruit of the wild fig tree found
at Cayamas, Cuba, and specimens of the insects found in them.
At Cayamas only four trees of Ficus were found in the timber
all of them of very tall growth, the lowest branches being from
40 to 50 feet above ground, so that no close observation could be
made. In the middle of February bird droppings on the leaves
of various low shrubbery were noticed to be composed of seeds of
tigs intermingled with minute insect remains. About the same
time scattered specimens of the hymenoptcrous genus Idarnes
a well-known parasite of Blastophaga could be found flying
about in the woods. Finally, from one of these trees the drop
ping of ripe figs commenced at the rate of about four in one
minute and many thousands of figs dropped from this one tree in
the course of a few days. An investigation of these fallen figs
showed that they were male figs, /. e., every one of the seeds
was a gall flower inhabited by the true caprificators (Blasto
phaga} or by parasites belonging to the genus Idarnes. Not a
single specimen of a female Blastophaga was found in the falling
figs, but only males, averaging in number from seven to twenty
in one fig. Both <$ and 9 specimens of the parasitic Idarnes
abounded in the figs. These parasites issue from a single hole
in the side of the fig, but it appears that they can issue only at a
certain period in the ripening of the fruit, for many figs were found
in which the Idarnes had been unable to escape and had died.
Mr. Schwarz has come to the conclusion that the particular tree
from which the figs were dropping was a caprifig tree, /. ., a
male tree, and, to all appearance, of the same character as the
caprifig tree in the Smyrna figs. The other trees, from which
not a single fig was falling, were, it may be inferred, either female

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trees or trees whose flowers are adapted to carrying on the sub
sequent generations of the fig insects.

Dr. Ashmead asked Mr. Schwarz if these Cuban figs belonged
to one of the species found in Florida. Mr. Schwarz replied
that he did not know. Dr. Ashmead stated that there are three
kinds of wild Ficus in Florida. Mr. Schwarz asked Dr. Ash
mead whether the species of Blastophaga could be determined
from male specimens. Dr. Ashmead replied that they could.

Mr. Barber exhibited some hymenopterous cocoons which
he had found at Williams, Arizona, in 1901. He said that the
cocoons were beaten from oak shrubs and were observed to be
capable of making jumping movements. Their jumping capacity
amounted to about one-fourth of an inch. After consulting the
literature Mr. Barber found that they belong to the genus
Limneria and that at an early period, viz., by GeofTrov at the
beginning of the last century, the jumping habits of the cocoon
had been observed. Dr. Ashmead then said that Limneria be
longed to the Ichneumonid tribe Campoplegini, containing some
sixty-five genera, all members of which have cocoons of this kind.

Mr. Benton stated that the Japanese had just translated into
their own language the bulletin on the honey bee published by
the U. S. Department of Agriculture.* A copy of the translation
was passed around for inspection.

Dr. Ashmead reported that a collection of nearly 20.0 species
of Japanese parasitic Hymenoptera had recently been received
by the IT. S. National Museum from Dr. S. Matsumura, Agri
cultural College, Sapporo, Japan. The collection contains
many interesting forms. f

Mr. Banks exhibited a specimen of the Neuropteron Man-
tispa viridis. This species was described by Walker from
.eastern Florida, and Hagen, who had never seen it, thought that,
owing to its green color foreign to other known Mantispidae
it must have been a manufactured insect. But the receipt by
Mr. Banks of a specimen from Florida, collected by Mrs. A. T.

*Bull. No. i (N. S.), Div. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agric. The Honey Bee : A
Manual of Instruction in Apiculture. By Frank Benton, M. S. Wash
ington, 1896.

\See Descriptions of New Hymenoptera from Japan. I. By William H.
Ashmead. Journ. N- Y. Ent. Soc., xn, No. 2, pp. 65-84, June, 1904.

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Slosson, and of one from Nicaragua, collected by Prof. C. F.
Baker, shows that the species exists in nature.

Mr. Banks mentioned having a specimen of the stonefly
Acroneurla ruralis (Hagen) in which one fore leg is but one-
third its proper size, indicating that this leg had probably been
lost and then replaced. This, he said, would furnish the first
record in the Perlidae of regeneration of appendages. He stated
that in spiders of the family Thomisidag it was very common to
find specimens in which one of the legs was of reduced size. He
has in his collection, also, a spider of the family Attidae, Dendry-
ph antes bifida Banks, in which one front leg is much reduced
in size and lacks the spiny armature. This is the first record of
the kind in the family Attidae.

Mr. Schwarz said that during his stay at Cayamas, Cuba, he
came across a gigantic net of the social spider Uloborus republi-
canus Simon (as determined byMr. Banks). From the excellent
paper by Mr. E. Simon* it was to be seen that socialism in
Arachnida is of very rare occurrence, and that no case has hitherto
been reported from the West Indies, Uloborus republicanus
having been described and previously known only from Venezuela.
Mr. Schwarz said that he was not prepared to see a net of such
gigantic proportions. It occupied nearly the whole crown of a
felled tree. Its width, naturally irregular in outline, was from
seven to nine feet, its height from five to seven feet, while its depth
averaged three feet. The whole structure exactly resembled the
figure given by Mr. Simon. The male spiders, easily distin
guished by their brown color from the females, occupied one of
the lowermost corners of the net. An attempt was made to
count the individual spiders or spider webs, but after 200 speci
mens were counted the attempt was abandoned. Mr, Schwarz
estimated that upward of 1,000 specimens were the occupants of
this structure. The whole net formed a most perfect trap for all
insects that flew through the clearing made by the felled tree,
and the individual webs of the spiders were found to be full of
insects of all kinds, but more especially of various Diptera which
are common in Cuba during the winter months, viz., one or two

"Voyage de M. E. Simon au Venezuela (Decembre iSSj-Avril 1888) ne
Me*moire (i ). Observations Biologiques sur les Arachnides. By Eugene
Simon. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, LX, pp. 5-14. pis. 1-4, 1901.

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species of Hippelates and a species of Hormomyia all of them
very troublesome pests to man. Mr. Schwarz said that he had
nothing to add to Mr. Simon's excellent account, and he wished
to testify as to the correctness of the latter's illustration of the net.
Three other nets of the same social spider were found near by,
but these were of greatly inferior size, the largest of them being
occupied by about 300 spiders.

In discussion of this note Mr. Banks reviewed the literature of
the social spiders as given in Mr. Simon's article. He stated
that the nearest approach to a social spider in the United States
is Theridium studiosum Hentz, which is very closely related to
7\ socialis Simon. In this country one frequently finds several
webs of Hyptiotes, the nearest genus to Uloborus, on the same
dried branch, but not connected. Dr. Gill asked whether there
is a discrepancy in size between the two sexes of Uloborus, and
mentioned a Madagascar spider, Nephila madagascarensis
Vinson, in which the female is more than 100 times as large as
the male. Mr. Banks replied that in our Nephila pluinipes
Koch the male is just as small in proportion as in the Mada
gascar species. Mr. Schwarz said that the male of Nephila
plumipes is just as common as the female, but that it is easily
overlooked from its small size and from the fact that it always
occurs opposite the large body of the female on the other side of
the web. It appeared to him that on account of its extremely
small size and from the fact, just mentioned, that it is always on
the other side of the web, that it is well protected from the
cannibalistic habits of the female Nephila. Dr. Ash mead men
tioned the genus Gasteracantha as an instance among spiders in
which the male is smaller than the female. Mr. Banks remarked,
however, that the disparity in size in that genus is not nearly so
great as in Nephila. Mr. Caudell stated that it is not uncommon
to find numbers of spiders huddled together in one place in
winter. Mr. Banks said that he did not consider this an example
of socialism ; the spiders simply happened to seek the same place
for hibernation. -

Mr. Banks presented the following paper :

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NOTES ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE THORAX AND
MAXILLAE IN INSECTS.

By NATHAN BANKS.
(PLATE I.)

When one looks at the complicated structure of the thorax in
a fty or a bee, it seems almost impossible to tell much of the
origin of the parts. But it is not so difficult to unravel the tangle
if we start at the right end. Several years ago while looking at
some Chilopods one point in the solution occurred to me. I
published upon it at that time, and since then have often been
confirmed in the view then expressed that the segments of the
thorax are compound. It is generally admitted to day (more so
than ten years ago) that the Chilopods are closely related to the
ancestors of the winged insects ; and no one, I think, can study
them. without arriving at that conclusion.

If we look at one of the lower and simpler Chilopods, as a
Geophilus or Mecistocephalus (Plate I, fig. S), we will notice
that the head is followed by a series of segments, subequal in size,
each bearing a pair of legs, and (except the first) spiracles. If
one examines a more compact Chilopod, as Scolopocryptops, two
kinds of segments are seen, the larger with spiracles, the smaller
without them. In Lithobius (Plate I, fig. i) this process has
gone further, the small segments are smaller, the large are larger,
and overlap or even cover the small ones. In Cermatia the dor
sal scutas of the small segments have coalesced with the large
segments. This, I believe, has happened to all insects ; what we
consider a segment of the thorax being really two segments
united. There are various external points of proof. One that I
previously advanced is that in Machilis there are jointed append
ages to the abdomen which appear to represent legs. Similar
appendages are attached to the middle and hind coxae ; these,
then, may represent the legs to the other segments of the thorax.
Three years ago Mr. Walton called attention to the structure ot
the coxa, showing that there are present the basal parts of two ap
pendages ; the trochantin and epimeron representing basal joints
of a leg now no further developed. He reasoned from this that
the thorax was compound. He did not then know of my article.
I have given (Plate I, fig. 7) a side view of the coxa of a Pa-
norpa where one can see that the coxa shows these two sets of
basal joints. This appearance is readily noted in most Neurop-
tera (very clearly so in Psocidae), and can be made out by a little
study on many of the higher insects.

In my note of ten years ago I stated that I thought the pro-
thorax might not be compound, but now I consider that it is

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formed of two segments as are the meso- and metathorax. One
will see that this is probable by a glance at the figure of a Litho-
bius (Plate I, fig. i). Many insects show a transverse groove
on the pronotum. It is seen that the spiracles of the small
segments have disappeared in Lithobius. This has a direct bear
ing on the question, if it be true (as the best evidence seems to
show) that the wings of insects originate from rudimentary
spiracles. Since there are not in the lowest Chilopod any spir
acles on the first segment, this will explain why there have been
no prothoracic wings in insects. If we look again at a Lithobius
(Plate I, fig. i) we notice that behind the thorax is a segment
not followed by a smaller one. This will become the median
segment of insects, in some forms united to the thorax.

Are the abdominal segments of insects compound? I do not
know of positive evidence, but in looking at Lithobius one would
think that the abdominal segments were also compound. In many
insects there are indications of transverse division on some of the
abdominal segments. Still one cannot argue too literally from
Lithobius, for Lithobius is not the ancestor of insects but only
closely related thereto.

If we compare the head end of the lower and higher Chilopods
we notice that there has been an increase in the size of the poison-
claw, and a more or less definite coalescence with the head. It
would seem, therefore, that in insects a more complete coalescence
has been accomplished. And it is so. The Chilopod (Plate I,
figs, i, 5, 6, 8) has a pair of mandibles ; a lip with jointed lobes
each side ; a pair of slender jointed appendages, sometimes called
maxillae ; and the poison-claws overlapping all. What has
become of these parts in insects? If we examine the larva of
a Perlid (Plate I, figs. 2, 4), we see mandibles, lip with lobes
or palpus, and a complicated maxilla. In side view, this looks
much like the poison-claw, and it is. In some Perlid larvas, one
can, with a little care, separate the maxilla into two separate and
independent structures, without rupturing the teguments. The
inner part is the palpus, with its own basal joints, normally con
cealed by the stipes and cardo. The outer and larger part is the
old poison-claw, now galea and lacinia. In most insects the
pressure of the former poison-claw against the palpus has resulted
in a coalescence and twisting of parts. However, in many insects
(Carabidae, etc.), the galea is divided into two segments, thus
showing that it represents an appendage as well as the palpus.
The lacinia, I should guess, is developed from a spur at the base
of a joint. A similar articulated piece is found in the mandibles
of some beetles (as Cetonidaa). Thus I believe that the maxilla?
of insects represent two pairs of appendages fused together at
base ; and that each segment of the insect thorax is composed of
two primitive segments.

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I shall not now go into the rise of the clypeus and labrum,
only to note that in the Chilopod there is a piece bent down
between the large and approximate antennas, which, as the an
tennae separate, will become more prominent, and as the mouth
moves forward will become dorsal in position.

Regarding the history of the compound thorax theory, it may
be well to record that Hagen in 1889 said he thought each seg
ment was composed of three, one each for the legs, the spiracles,
and the wings ; but his views are not at all in line with mine,
and were -unknown to me in 1893 when I broached my theory.
In 1900 Mr. Walton, upon studying the coxa, concluded that the
thorax was composed of six segments. He was then unaware of
the papers by Hagen and myself. Kolbe in his " Einfuhrung "
gives practically the same version of the segmentation of the
thorax that I have given. Kolbe's work was finished late in 1893,
but was issued in parts, and the part dealing with this matter
must have appeared about 1891 , although unknown to me in
1893.

Since I have written this paper (which was on the program for
presentation last fall) I have seen a paper by Verhoeff (published
in May, 1903), in which he accepts the compound nature of the
thorax and gives names to the parts, as follows :
between head and prothorax Microthorax ;
between pro- and mesothorax Stenothoiax ;
between meso- and metathorax Cryptothorax.

He shows that in Japyx the cryptothorax still retains the
spiracle, and he finds traces of these segments in various insects.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Hagen, H. A. Ueber die friiheren Zustande des Libellen,
nebst Andeutung tiber Bildung des Thorax. Stett. Ent. Zeit.,
1889, PP 162-167.

Kolbe, H. J. Einfuhrung in die Kenntniss der Insekten, 1893,
pp. 1 15-1 1 6.

Banks. N. Notes on the thorax and mouth parts of insects and
Chilopods. Am. Nat., April, 1893, pp. 400-401.

Walton, L. B. The basal segments of the hex-apod leg. Am. Nat.,
April, 1900, pp. 267-274.

VerhcefF, K. W. Beitrage zur vergleichenden Morphologic des
Thorax der Insekten mit Berucksichtigung der Chilopoden.
Nova Acta K. Leop. -Carol. Deutsch. Akacl. Naturfor.,
LXXXI, No. 2, pp. 63-124.

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I

PLATE I.

OF WASHINGTON. 153

EXPLANATION OF PLATE I.

1. Lithobius, anterior part of body.

2. Head of larva of Perlid.

3. Head of adult Pcrla.

4. Mouth parts of Perlid larva.

5. Mouth parts of Lithobius.

6. Mouth parts of Cermatia.

7. Coxa of Panorpa.

8. Mecistocephalus, anterior part of body.
Legend :

//, head ; /, lip ; ///, maxillae ; /, leg I, which becomes part of
maxilla ; />, poison-claw ; 5, dorsal scutas ; /, spiracles ; w,
mandible ; x, antenna.

Dr. Gill asked Mr. Banks whether his views as to the mouth
parts of insects corresponded with those of Prof. John B. Smith.
Mr. Banks replied that he did not believe that Prof. Smith's
investigations had been carried on along the same line as his
own. He did not believe that Prof. Smith suspected that the
maxilla was a compound organ.

The subject of Myriapoda and their relation to insects and
other Arthropods was discussed by Messrs. Morris, Gill, Banks
and Ashmead. Dr. Gill said he thought Mr. Banks' theories as
set forth in his paper just read were plausible, although, of
course, it remained to be seen whether further investigation
would bear them out.

Mr. Schwarz exhibited and described a structure made by a
Psyllid larva on the leaves or young shoots of Piscidia ery-
thrina, the fish-killing plant of the West Indies, at Key West,
Florida, and at Cayatnas, Cuba. He stated that among the
numerous species of North American Psyllidas there are com
paratively few that are gall-makers, or that cause deformations
in the various parts of the plant they affect. Only two nest-
making or nest-spinning Psyllidae have hitherto been known,
and these only from Australia, /. <?., the genera Spondyliaspis
and Cardiaspis, as explained by him in a paper read before the
Society some time ago.* The species from Key West forms a

*Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., iv, No. 2, pp. 66-73, March 21, 1898.

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nest-like, globular structure of whitish color, usually along the mid
ribs of the fully developed leaves (fig. 3). Upon examination the
wall of this structure is seen to be composed of fine, cotton-like
threads. When inhabited by the larvas the nests are of a sticky
nature, but old specimens become brittle in time. They are fastened
to the leaves by a broad base so that the larva, in feeding, is forced
to push its beak through this space into the parenchyma of the leaf.
A large number of the adult Psyllids were bred from the speci
mens from Key West, but unfortunately none of them were in
perfect condition, so that the systematic position of the Psyllid,
viz., whether it belongs to the Aphalarinae or the PsylHnae,
remains in doubt. Mr. Schwarz stated that from the character
of the larvae it would appear that the species belongs to the

FIG. 3. "Sest making Psyllid from Key West, Florida.

Psyllinae rather than to the Aphalarinae, the wing parts in the
former subfamily' being more oval'and more towards the sides of
the body ; whereas in the Aphalarinae the wing parts are of a more
quadrangular shape and more towards the dorsal portion of the
body. In this connection Mr. Schwarz reviewed the larval
habits of such American Psyllidas as have hitherto been studied
biologically.

In discussion Mr. Busck stated that he, also, saw this Psyllid at
Key West, Florida. Dr. Ashmead said that since Mr. Schwarz's
paper on the nest-making Australian Psyllidae the subject has
been taken up by Mr. Froggatt in Australia. Other species of
the genera Spondyliaspis and Cardiaspis have been described
by the latter author, but no progress has been made in our
knowledge of the peculiar structures made by their larvae.

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MAY 5. 1904.

The iSyth regular meeting was held at the Sasngerbund Hall, 314
C street, N.W., Vice-President Hopkins in the chair, and Messrs.
Ashmead, Benton, Currie, Dyar, Gill, Heidemann, Kotinsky
and Ulke, members, and Mr. Frederick Knab, visitor, pres
ent. The Corresponding Secretary presented a report. Among
other publications he reported the receipt from Baron C. R.
Osten Sacken of the latter's autobiography entitled " Record of
My Life Work in Entomology."* A copy of the work was shown-
Mr. Ulke stated that he became acquainted with Baron Osten
Sacken in 1856, the latter having come to Washington at that
time. He gave some personal reminiscences of the Baron.

Mr. S. Arthur Johnson, First Assistant in Zoology in the
State Agricultural College, Fort Collins, Colorado, and Mr.
Frederick Knab, temporarily residing at 729 Thirteenth street
N.W.. were elected to corresponding membership. ,

Dr. Dyar showed a copy of Rothschild and Jordan's "A
Revision of. the Lepidopterous family Sphingidae,"f and stated how
their changes in the generic names had been arrived at. Their
method of determining the types of composite genera differs
from that usually employed in the three following particulars :
(i) No generic name is to be recognized unaccompanied by some
sort of printed description; (2) the first species of a composite
genus is to be regarded as the type ; (3) a subsequent genus
containing the type of a preceding one is a synonym thereof,
whether its first species be the same or not.

Under (i ) Hiibner's Tentamen names and all catalogue names
are rejected, even though accompanied by the plain designation
of a species as the type, while every name is accepted that has
some sort of description attached, even if that description con
tains not a single character that will define the genus. Dr. Dyar
said he thought that the line had been drawn arbitrarily by these
authors. A name accompanied only by some well-known species
as type is often more intelligible and useful than another with
a long description which gives no essential characters.

"Cambridge, Mass., October. 1903.
fNovitates Zoologicae, ix, Suppl., 1903.

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(2) The taking of the first species of a genus as the type is
defended as an extension of the rule of priority. It is also
defended as the shortest and least laborious method and the one
most likely to produce uniformity. Dr. Dyar agreed with the
authors that it was certainly easy and a most gratifying relief
from the labors incidental to any attempts to arrive at the types
of genera by the method of elimination. This method had, he
said, been rather a dismal failure, so far as applied to insects.
No two authors seem capable of arriving at the same results in a
particular case. He was inclined to attribute this to faulty
research, and he supposed that when all the literature had been
examined a finality would be arrived at. However, if general
consent were to be obtained he admitted that this new method
would save an immense amount of irksome labor. The principal
objection to it seems to be that it has not been generally adopted
in other branches of zoology. A uniform method of determin
ing types of genera should obtain throughout the animal king
dom. Therefore, until a change shall have been effected in the
rules of nomenclature the generally accepted method of elimination
should be continued. Dr. Dyar said that it might be further
urged that the method did not do justice to the writings of sub
sequent authors, and the student would be inclined to omit
studying them.

As to (3) Dr. Dyar failed to see why it was propounded. It
does away with some names which. have, strictly, little right to
be recognized, yet which might be retained if rule (2) were
allowed to cover those cases as well. Two genera containing
exactly the same species might then be preserved if their first
species was different. Dr. Dyar could not see any harm in this,
and he believed that the less rules there were in force the better
it would be for simplicity.

Dr. Gill said that as applied to the Linneean genera the method
of taking the first species as type was unsound. Linnseus placed
his species in a graded sequence, those connecting one group
with another being placed at the beginning and the end. The
really typical forms would be found in the middle of the genus
and the first species often contradicts the diagnosis in one or even
several particulars, as is the case with Squalus pristis.

Dr. Dyar said that the method of elimination was calculated

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to produce no better results. The frequent outcome of its appli
cation was to determine as the type the most obscure and least
known species of the genus. Thus, in Hiibner's genera in the
" Verzeichniss " not only are the well-known European forms
included but they are followed by those known to Hiibner only
by Cramer's figures and which fall in these genera owing to
Hiibner's definitions being based on pattern of markings and
coloration. It is perfectly natural that subsequent authors re
move first those well-known European species, leaving the type
of Hiibner's term to fall upon some South American form usually
belonging to another family and which was autoptically unknown
to Hiibner. In this case the method of taking the first species as
type produces better results and is more just to the author.

Dr. Ash mead pointed out that the action of previous authors
should be taken into account and their determinations of types,
when justified by the rules, should be binding and ought not
to be changed. This not only in justice to the authors but in
obedience to the rule of priority.

Dr. Ashmead stated that he had received another consign-

&

ment of Philippine Hymenoptera from Father W. A. Stanton of
the Philippine Weather Bureau, Manila, P. I. The collection
contained about thirty-one new species additions to his recently
published list of Philippine Hymenoptera and, to a large extent,
representing families not before known from the Philippines.

Dr. Hopkins informed the Society that he had just received
a letter from Mr. Burke, now in Washington State investigating
forest insects, in which the latter stated that he had succeeded,
by fastening little cages to the trees, in capturing emerging adults
of the Syrphid fly whose larva, as ascertained by him last sum
mer, is destructive to the Western hemlock. The larva lives in,
or under, the bark, entering by a wound made by a woodpecker
or Scolytid beetle and, enlarging it, causes an accumulation of
pitch and makes a bad defect in the wood. Dr. Ashmead re
called that in Florida he had found certain Syrphid larvas living
in the bark of pine.

Dr. Hopkins mentioned that on his recent trip into the
southern States, he had observed that certain Scolytid beetles
whose range extends from the West Indies north into the United
States' are smaller as one goes southward, showing, in his
opinion, that they were originally northern species.

- Dr. Dyar presented the following paper :

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NOTES ON SYNONYMY AND LARVAE OF PYRALID^E.

By HAKRISON G. DYAR.
Euzophera gigantella Ragonot.

Enzophera gigantella Ragonot, Nouv. gen. Phyc. and Gall., p. 32, 1888.
Euzophera ifigantella Ragonot, Rom. Mem., vin, p. 51, 1901.
Honora cinerella Hulst. Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., vui, p. 223, 1901.
Honora cinerella Hulst, Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 433, 1902.

Hulst's 9 type is before me. It has not the contrasts of black
shades shown in Ragonot's figure,* but these shades are barely
mentioned in the text and not at all in the original description, so
it appears that the figure is either over colored or made from an
unusually dark specimen. The species belongs to Euzophera
rather than to Honora as the cell of the hind wings is long, beino"
nearly half the length of the wing.

Vitula serratilineella Ragonot.

Vitula serratilineella Ragonot, Diag. N. A. Phjcit. and Gall., p. 115,

1887.

Vitula serratilineella Hulst, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xvn, p. 179, 1890.
Eccopisa set rattlineclla Ragonot, Rom. Mem., viu, pp. 33, 560, 1901;

PI. XLIX, fig. 23.

Vitula serratilineella Hampson, Rom. Mem., vin, p. 83, 1901.
Eccopsia serratilineella Hulst, Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 430, 1902.
Vitula serratilineella Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., v, p. 104, 1903.
Not Vitula serratilineella Hampson, Rom. Mem., vm, PI. XLII, fig.
12, 1901.

The species belongs to Vitula as originally placed by Ragonot,
since the ^ has none of the peculiar characters described for
Eccopisa Zeller. Hampson places it positively in this genus, f but
without good reason, for he had no ^, as the citations in the text
show. The figure (PL XLIX, fig. 23) is a fair representation of
the species, but the second figure (PI. XLII, fig. 12) is quite a dif
ferent insect, apparently belonging to another genus, and a male,
if the drawing is to be trusted. The generic term Eccopsia is
due to a misreading of Dr. Hulst's manuscript or to a clerical
error of his; he evidently intended to write Eccopisa Zeller. I
had to supply the authors' names and the references and, not find
ing Eccopsia, thought it one of the new names being proposed
by Ragonot in Vol. VIII of the Romanoff Memoirs, not then
available. The term Eccopsia (Ragonot) Hulst will be cited as

*Rom. Mem., vin, PI. xxv, fig. 25.
f Rom. Mem., vin, p. 560, 1901,

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a synonym of Vitula, type serratilineella Ragonot. There is
no known American species of Eccopisa Zeller.

Laetilia ephestiella Ragonot.

Dakruma ephestiella Ragonot, Diag. No Am. Phycit. and Gall., p. 13,

1887.

Ltztilia ephestiella Hulst, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xvn, p. 185, 1890.
Lasiosticha ephestiella Ragonot, Rom. Mem., vui, p. no, 1901, PI. i,

fig 3-
Laosticha ephestiella Hulst, Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 431, 1902.

The name Laosticha is another error in preparing Dr. Hulst's
manuscript for Bulletin 52- The name originally communicated
to Dr. Hulst was evidently Lasiosticha Meyrick. But I can see
no reason for referring the Arizonian species to this Australian
genus. Lasiosticha is characterized by having a thick ridge of
scales on the $ antennas from base to middle, as stated in the text
of Ragonot's monograph and shown in the figure,* while Rago
not says of ephestiella, $ antennas simple, filiform, feebly pubes
cent. The venation is stated to be as in coccidivora Comstock,
but vein 2 of hind wings a little before end of cell and vein 8 very
short. I would refer it to Lcetilia of which Lacsticha (Ragonot)
Hulst will become a synonym. The genus Lasiosticha Meyrick
should be considered unrepresented in America.

Pectinigera ardiferella Hulst.

Al/ootia ardiferella Hulst, Ent. Amer., iv, p. 118, 1888.
Altoona ardiferella Hulst, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc , xvii, p. 208, 1890.
Tolima ardiferella Ragonot, Romanoff Mem., vm, p. 506, 1901.
Aurora nigromaculella Hulst. Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., vui, p. 224, 1901.
Sahiria ardiferella Hulst, Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 439, 1902.

This species cannot belong to Tolima, as vein 2 of the hind
wings is distant from the angle of the cell, nor to Aurora, as vein
10 of fore wings is from the cell, nor to Saluria, as there is no
frontal tubercle. Altoona is made a synonym of Tolima by
Ragonot, but I have seen no male and cannot say whether the
antennas in this species have a tuft of scales or not. I assume
that they do, in placing the species in Pectinigera, as the posi
tion to which Hampson assigns the species in the Romanoff
Memoirs implies that such is the case.

Two small specimens from Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell from
Mesilla Park, New Mexico, emerged August 4 and n. They
are labeled as follows :

" Bred from Orthezia an nee on Atriplex canescens. Larva

* Rom. Mem., vin, p. 109, PI. XLVI, fig. 24, 1901.

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in web, 8 or 9 mm. long, flead black; body dull white, the
piliferous tubercles dark but not very conspicuous. First thoracic
segment dark purplish at the sides, black or nearly so on the
dorsum. Thoracic legs black." (Cockerell.)

Selagia lithosella Ragonot.

Selagia lithosella Ragonot, Diag., N. Am. Phycit., p. 9, 1887.
Se.logia lithosella. Hulst, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xvn, p. 160, 1890.
Selagia lithosella Ragonot, Rom. Mem., vn, p, 474, 1893.
Honora luteella Hulst, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., vni, p. 223. 1901.
Sflagia lithosella Hulst, Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 426, J9O2.
Honera luteella Hulst, Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 433, 1902.

Hulst's type of luteella is before me and agrees with Ragonot's
figure of lithosella. The species does not belong to Honora,
having S veins in the hind wings, but agrees generically with
the European argyrella Fab., the type of Selagia.

Cacotherapia, n. gen.

Fore wings with 12 veins, 2 well before the angle of the cell, 3 before
the angle, 4 and 5 long-stalked, cell long, 6 well below the upper angle,
7 to 10 stalked, 7 to 9 close together on a long stalk, 7 from 8 beyond 9,
10 shortly stalked, n from cell. Hind wings with 7 veins, 2 from long
before angle of cell, 3 and 4 separate, 6 from upper angle of cell, 7 and 8
anastomosing, the upper vein of the cell obsolete, resembling the discal
vein. Labial palpi long, porrect ; maxillary palpi and tongue invisible ;
rf antennae thickened, slightly dentate, ciliate, a heavy scaling on costa of
fore wings below at base.

Belongs to the Galleriinas near Antipilotis Meyrick, but differs
in the obsolescence of the tongue, the long porrect palpi, etc.
Type: Aurora nigrocinereella Hulst.

Cacotherapia nigrocinereella Hulst.

Aurora nigrocinereella Hulst, Can. Ent., xxxn, p. 176, 1900.

Aurora nigrocinereella Hulst, Bull. 52, U. 'S. Nat. Mus., p. 438, 1902.

The locality "Texas" given by Hulst is erroneous. The
specimens were bred from larvae feeding on ^ Lecanium sp., on
Bigelovia douglassii, American Fork, Utah (E. A. Schwarz).
Received at Dept. Agriculture June 22, 1891, issued cT and 9
July 7 and 8, 1891 " (Dept. Agr., No. 5094).

This adds another to the list of carnivorous Lepidoptera.

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Mr. Heidemann presented the following paper :

NOTES ON NORTH AMERICAN ARADID^E, WITH DESCRIP
TIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES.

By OTTO HEIDEMANN.

Dr. A. D. Hopkins, who is in charge of the forest insect inves
tigations of the Department of Agriculture, turned over to me for
identification a lot of hemipterous insects belonging to the family
Aradidae. Some of these were collected by him on his trips to
Florida and Texas, but the greater part of them by his assistant,
Mr. W. F. Fiske, in North Carolina and Georgia during the year
1903. The collection represents four genera with thirteen well-
known species. In addition there are two new species of the
genera Neuroctenus and Aneurus.*

Subfamily

Aradus acutus Say.

Two specimens. A female taken at Tryon, N. C., April 17,
1903, beneath the bark of a rotten oak log; and a male, found at
Everett, Ga., April 27, 1903, under dry bark of small dead oak.

On these specimens the cinereous spots on the dorsal part of
abdomen show* very distinctly. The species is not uncommon,
frequently being found also around Washington, D. C.

Aradus similis Say.

Two specimens from Tryon, N. C., December 14 and April
9, 1903, beneath bark of elm, girdled last spring; also under
bark of dead maple. This common species varies considerably
in size. Even dwarf specimens are found.

Aradus crenatus Say.

Six specimens, males and females. All came from Tryon,
N. C.. April 4, 7, 17, 1903. Found beneath bark of tulip trees
(Liriodcndrori}* killed last summer ; under loose bark of hickory
(log dead one year), and beneath bark of maple trees, girdled
one year. I once took at Cabin John, Md., numerous specimens
of nymphs and adults, by sifting the decaying wood of an old
tree stump.

Aradus niger Stal.

Three specimens, male and female, winged form. They were
collected by Dr. A. D. Hopkins, at Kirbyville, Texas, November
17, 1902, under dead bark of long-leaf pine (Pinus palustris).
This species was for a long time unrecognized, but specimens

*The notes on mode of occurrence are mostly taken from field notes
furnished me by Dr. A. D. Hopkins.

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have lately been compared with Stal's type by Dr. Ch. Aurivilius
of Stockholm, and are now preserved in the U. S. National Mu
seum collection.*

Aradus cinnamomeus Panzer.

One specimen, a winged male from Tryon, N. C. Common
throughout the spring and early summer on a large pine tree,
which had been .girdled in March, but which was still alive.
Many specimens were caught in the pitch that exuded from the
wound. This small Aradus belongs also to the palearctic fauna.

Aradus fallen! Stal.

A single female specimen, taken at light, May 30, 1903, at
Tryon. N. C. This species has a wide range of distribution.
Originally described from Rio Janeiro, Brazil, it occurs through
out South America, in Mexico and the West Indies, and has
recently been recorded from nearly all of the Southern States. It
is known, also, from Indian Territory and the District of Colum
bia.

Aradus breviatus Bergroth.

One example, a male, collected by Dr. A. D. Hopkins, on
Taxodium at Baldwin, Fla. This species seems quite rare. I
once took two specimens from the crevices of the bark of a living
pine tree in the neighborhood of Washington, D. C.

Subfamily

Brachyrrhynchus granulatus Say.

Numerous specimens from Tryon, N. C. , March 6 and April
9, 1903 ; found on yellow pine trees, dead some years, and be
neath bark of dead maples ; on fresh pine boards, attracted with
other insects by the odor of resin; and on November 17, 1903,
beneath bark of chestnut felled last spring. It was also taken at
Savannah, Ga., April 29, and at Cornelia, Ga., November 22,
1903, beneath dead and dry oak bark. The species is very abun
dant throughout the United States.

Neuroctenus simplex Uhler.

Many specimens, mostly from Tryon, N. C., March 9, Novem
ber 17, 18, 1903, beneath bark of decaying oak log and beneath
bark of oak, which died last summer. The species was also col
lected at Saluda, N. C., November 25, 1903, in large numbers
beneath bark of oak trees girdled last spring ; and at Lakeland,
Fla., April 7, 1904, on live-oak. This is the commonest species
of the Aradids known in the United States. Fresh specimens

* Note on Aradtts (Qutlnus) niger Stal. By O. Heidemann. Proc,
Ent, Soc, Wash., iv, No. 4, p. 389, 1896-1901 ; arid loc. cit., p. 411.

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have the membranous parts of the elytra silvery-white with a
short, dark streak at base, sometimes running down to the middle
and forming an irregular spot.

Neuroctenus pseudonymus Bergroth.
Netiroctenus pseudonymus Bergroth, Wien Ent. Zeit., xvm, p. 27, 1898.

One example, taken at Saluda, N. C., May 20, beneath bark
of a decaying chestnut log. This species was originally described
from North Carolina. I have taken it twice in the District of
Columbia. It is more robust and broader in body than any other
of the North American species of Neuroctenus.

Neuroctenus elongatus Osborn.
Neuroctenus elongatus Osborn, Ohio Naturalist, iv, No. 2. p. 21, 1903.

Six specimens, males and females, found at Tr-yon, N. C.,
April 3, 1903, beneath bark of decaying chestnut log. Prof.
Herbert Osborn kindly examined one of the male specimens and
identified it as N. elongatus, recently described by him from one
male specimen in his paper on Aradidae of Ohio.* Having now
a series of specimens of both sexes, I give the following descrip
tion of the female :

9- Anterior process of head reaching very slightly over the apex of
first antennal joint; process of the antenniferous tubercles acute ; tubercles
behind the eves quite prominent. Pronottim twice as wide as its length;
posterior margin nearly straight. Dorsal part of abdomen dark brown,
with the lateral margin reddish brown, the posterior edges of the segments
on the connexivum a little raised near the incisures. Lateral lobes of the
genital segment, as seen from above, slightly longer than the middle lobe,
which is obtusely rounded and not broader than the lateral lobes. Length
5.5 to 6 mm. ; width 2.25 mm.

Of this species I possess also two examples from Greensburg,
Pennsylvania.

Neuroctenus hopkinsi, n. sp.

Dark brownish, irregularly granulated. Anterior process of head deeply
notched at tip, reaching the apex of the basal antennal joint; process
of the antenniferous tubercles verv acute, divaricate; post-ocular part
of head rounded, coarsely granulated, not tuberculated laterally. An
tennae as long as the posterior margin of pronotum, finely granulated ; the
basal joint stout, third joint somewhat more. slender than the others and
slightly longer, the fourth fusiform and yellowish at tip with a few
long, fine hairs. Pronotum trapezoidal ; the lateral margins slightly
sinuated with the anterior angles rounded, somewhat prominent; poster
ior margin straight; surface coarsely granulated, a little raised at the an-

* The Ohio Naturalist, iv, No. 2, p. 41, December, 1903.

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terior part with two small, glabrous spots near the anterior border.
Scutellum broad triangular, rounded at tip with a faint indication of a
carina; near the pronotal border is a shallow impression, where the
granules are indistinct, arranged in longitudinal rows, while the posterior
part of the scutellum is very coarsely transversely wrinkled. Corium
more finely irregularly granulated and rugulose ; the neuration of the
membranous part of elytra very distinct; color black with two yellow
spots at base near the scutellum. and one on each side next to the tip of
corium. The lateral lobes of the female genitalia are rounded and exactly
in the same line with the middle lobe, which is transverse and only a little
broader than the lateral lobes. Male genital segment broad, oval, poster
ior margin more angulate and the lateral lobes very small.

Length of female 5.8 to 6.2 mm. ; width of abdomen 2.8 mm.

Length of male 5.8 mm. ; width 2.6 mm.

Hendersonville, N. C., May 26, 1903, found under bark of
white pine, cut last winter.

. No. 8048, U. S. National Museum.

This species is easily distinguished from N. simplex Uhler and
from N. elongatus Osborn by the conspicuously rugose surface
of the posterior part of the scutellum and bv the differently
shaped, slightly longer terminal genital segment of the male. It
seems to be also allied to JV. amplus Champion and JV. punctu-
latus Burmeister, but differs from the former in having the post-
ocular part of -head not spinous nor tuberculate, and is distin
guished from the latter species by the shorter antennae.

I name the species in honor of Dr. A D. Hopkins, who has
contributed much to our knowledge of the hemipterous insects
living under bark of trees.

Aneurus minutus Bergroth.

Atieurus minutus Bergroth, Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges Wien, 1886, p. 58.

Two specimens, male and female, from Brunswick, Ga., April
26, 1903 ; found in deserted galleries of a small Cerambycid in dead
branches of sumac. This species is recorded from Mexico and
the West Indies. I have also seen specimens from Arizona and
Southern Florida.

Aneurus simplex Uhler.

One example, a male, from Hoquiam, Washington State. This
species has more slender antennae than any other of the species,
and the apical joint is very long. The original specimen is re
corded by Prof. Ph. R. Uhler from New England.

Aneurus fiskei, n. sp.

Reddish brown; finely granulate and rugulose. Head slightly longer
than broad; front reaching to the middle of first antennal joint, spines of

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the antenniferous tubercles acute and curved ; part behind the eyes ob
tusely rounded, edged with a few fine granules; tubercles laterally obso
lete. Antennae not quite twice the length of head ; basal joint very stout,
broader than the frontal part of head; second joint oval like the basal
one, but much smaller and not thicker than the two remaining joints,
which are cylindrically formed; third joint nearly equal in length to the
first; the terminal one a little longer than the third and second together,
covered with fine hairs. Pronotum half as long as wide with a transverse
furrow before the middle; the lateral margins anteriorly slightly sinuate;
surface very finely granulate, posteriorly rugulose. Scutellum nearly as
long as broad, having also the same length as the pronotum in the mid
dle, more coarsely granulated with a short, faint carina anteriorly. The
membranous part of elytra rugose and densely granulated, color black;
near the middle of corium runs a transverse, yellowish spot, in some
specimens obliterated. The terminal genital segment of male convex and
long, but extending barely beyond the genital lobes.

Length of female 3.8 to 4 mm. ; width i.S mm.

Length of male 3.6 to 3.8 mm. ; width 1.6 mm.

Tryon, N. C., May 21, 1903 (W. F. Fiske. three specimens);
Bedford Co., Pa., August 15, 1901 ; Paris, Fauquier Co., Va.,
July 27, 1898; Berkeley Springs. Va., August 20, 1891 (O.
Heidemann) , and Mount Airy, Ga., September 2, 1894 (E. A.
Schwarz). Mr. Fiske's specimens were collected beneath bark
of decaying branches of sour-wood (Oxydendrum} and also be
neath loose bark scales on dry branches of sycamore. The other
material was found on dry and decaying branches of trees.

7ype.-^No. 8049, U. S. National Museum.

This species has some similarity to A. montanus Champion,
chiefly in the shape of the antennae, but differs in being smaller
and having the post-ocular part of head not spinous. I take
pleasure in dedicating it to Mr. W. F. Fiske.

Mr. Heidemann stated, in this connection, that Prof. Herbert
Osborn has in preparation a monograph of the Aradidae, Dr.
Hopkins asked Mr. Heidemann what constitutes the food of
Aradids. Mr. Heidemann stated that, so far as known, Aradidae
appear to feed upon fungi. Dr. Hopkins said that this, also, was
his opinion as to their food habits and he did not believe them
insectivorous.* Dr. Ashmead stated that certain Proctotrypid
parasites belonging to the genus Aradophagus infest the eggs of
Aradida3.

*A previous discussion on this subject is to be found in Proc, Ent. Soc.
Wash., iv, No. 4, July 16, 1901, pp. 390 and 391.

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The following paper by Mr. Coquillett was read by title :

NEW NORTH AMERICAN DIPTERA.
By D. W. COQUILLETT.

At various times in the past few years, in the course of identi
fying specimens of Diptera for various correspondents, the writer
has given manuscript names to new species, at the request of the
senders, and as several of these names have since appeared in print,
while others are shortly to be published, it is desirable to have
these species characterized so as to give the names a standing.
Accordingly the descriptions are appended herewith, together
with those of several other species which are as yet apparently
undescribed :

Family CHIRONOMID^.

Ceratopogon medius, n. sp.

Near varicolor, but differs in the coloring of the legs, the presence of
black bristles on the hind tibiae, etc. Black, the face, mouth parts, joints
two to seven of the antennae, the halteres, abdomen, tarsi except the nar
row apices of the joints, a ring before apex of each front femur and both
ends of the front and middle tibiae except their extreme apices, yellow.
Eyes narrowly separated on the front. Thorax bluish gray pruinose.
Front femora slightly thickened, each bearing four black spines on the
under side, other femora without spines, first tarsal joint nearly twice as
long as the second, the fourth joint dilated, bilobed at the apex, less than
one-half as long as the fifth, the latter without spines on the under side,
the two claws of each tarsus subequal in size. Wings bare, whitish hya
line, third vein separated from the first, not connected bv a cross-vein,
reaching three-fourths length of wing, apex of first vein a short distance
before middle of the third, fourth vein forks almost opposite the small
cross-vein. Length 2 mm.

Riverton, New Jersey. A female specimen collected on July
7 by Mr. C. W. Johnson.

Type. No. 7942, U. S. National Museum.

Family CULICIDyE.

Tseniorhynchus nigricans, n. sp.

Near perturbans^ but smaller and darker, the first joint of the hind tarsi
devoid of a median light colored band, etc. Deep black, a median band
on the proboscis and the halteres yellow. Scales of palpi black, those at
the apex white, appressed scales of occiput yellow, the upright ones brown.
Mesonotum nearly covered with golden yellow scales, those of the abdo
men black and with a lateral patch of whitish ones in the front angles of

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segments two to seven, venter black scaled and with a broad fascia of
whitish ones on the base of each segment. Legs black scaled, femora
with a stripe of yellow ones toward the base of the posterior side, a few
on the front side toward the base, a ring of whitish scales at three-fourths
the length of the femora, scales at extreme apices of femora and bases of
tibiae whitish, tibiae also with a narrow streak of whitish ones extending
nearly the entire length of the posterior side, a broad band of whitish
ones at two-thirds their length, those at the. apex also whitish, tarsi with
a rather narrow band of whitish ones at the base of each joint, tarsal claws
not toothed. Wings hyaline, the scales brown the lateral scales of the
veins broadly lanceolate, second submarginal cell much longer than the
second posterior, about four times as long as its petiole. Length 3 5 mm.

Panama. Two females collected by Dr. J. W. Ross.
Type. No. 7943, U. S. National Museum.

Tseniorhynchus signipennis, n. sp.

Distinguished by the apical half of the costa of each wing being covered
with light yellow scales with the exception of two patches of black ones.

9- Brown, varied with yellowish, the bases of the antennae, a broad
band at middle of the proboscis, the first tarsal joint except the apex and
a ring near the base, also the bases of the following joints, very narrowly
on the last two, yellow. Scales of palpi and the upright ones on the
occiput mixed black and light yellow, the appressed scales of the occiput
and mesonotum light yellow, those on the abdomen chiefly white, on the
femora and tibiae mixed black and light yellow, not forming distinct bands
or spots, those on the tarsi black except at bases of the joints and the
broad median portion of the first, which are chiefly whitish ; on the second
joint of the hind tarsi the whitish scales cover its basal half; tarsal claws
not toothed. Wing-scales mixed black and light yellow, the former col
lected into three spots, two on the apical half of the costa and one on the
sixth vein at a point near three-fourths of its length ; scales on apical half
of the costa and of the sixth vein wholly yellow with the exception of the
patches of black scales ; of the latter, the first one on the costa is slightly
longer than the second and equals about one-half of the yellow interval
between them ; lateral scales of the veins varying from broadly oblanceo-
late to very narrow, almost linear; petiole of the first submarginal cell
slightly longer than the cell ; hind cross-vein nearly its own length before
the small. Length 3 mm.

r^. Palpi slender, brown, bases of last two joints and the preceding
joint except its apex, vellow ; proboscis reaching slightly beyond base of
penultimate joint of palpi ; hairs of .antennae golden yellow, many on the
lower side brown. Scales of abdomen mixed brown and whitish. Front
and middle tarsi bearing two teeth under one of the claws and one under
the other, hind tarsal claws not toothed. Length 4 mm. Otherwise as
in the female.

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Monterey, Mexico. One female and four males (the latter
much abraded), bred by Dr. Joseph Goldberger.
Type. No. 8029, U. S. National Museum.

Culex nivitarsis, n. sp.

9- Black, the thorax and scutellum brown, the first antennal joint,
halteres, coxae, femora and tibiae yellow, the hind tarsi white and with a
faint median brownish band on the three middle joints. Scales of palpi
brown, those on the basal portion yellow, on the apex white; scales of
upper part of occiput golden yellow, on the sides and lower part chiefly
white, those on the rnesonotum golden yellow, on the abdomen purple,
those on the extreme bases and front angles of the segment's yellowish,
including all on the seventh and following segments, those on the venter
white. Scales of legs brown and whitish, not forming bands or spots,
those on the first two pairs of tarsi brown and with white ones on the
narrow bases and broad apices of the first two joints as well as on the
narrow bases of the remaining' joints of the middle tarsi; scales of the
hind tarsi almost wholly white; all tarsal claws toothed. Wings grayish
hyaline, the scales brown, lateral scales of the veins narrow and almost
linear, petiole of first submarginal cell about two-thirds as long as this
cell, hind cross-vein about its own length from the small. Length 4 mm.
$. Palpi slender, black, a broad band in middle of first joint and bases
of the following joints white, proboscis reaching almost to apex of penul
timate ioint of palpi. Front and middle tarsi with one of their claws
bidentate and the other unidentate, hind tarsal claws also unidentate;
some of the brown bands on the hind tarsi quite distinct, especially the
one on the third joint. Petiole of the first submarginal cell almost as long
as that cell. Length 4.5 mm. Otherwise as in the female.

Paterson, New Jersey, May 12. A specimen of each sex sub
mitted by Dr. J. B. Smith, to whom they have been returned.

Culex pullatus, n. sp.

9- Near punctor and impiger, but the bristles of the scutellum are
chiefly black instead of yellow, etc. Black, the halteres and femora largely
yellowish. Scales of palpi black, those on the occiput pale yellow, the
upright ones in the middle yellow, those on the sides and the bristles
black. Scales of the rnesonotum golden yellow, the sides with a few
lighter colored ones, the bristles and those of the scutellum chiefly black.
Scales of abdomen black and with a tinge of violet, a crossband of whitish
ones at base of each segment, dilated at each end, scales of venter whitish,
a few black ones in hind angles of the segments. Scales of coxae and on
lower part of anterior, and posterior sides of the femora yellowish white,
on upper part of femora and toward their apices chiefly black ; scales of
tibise blackish and mixed with a few yellowish ones, those on the tarsi
blackish; all tarsal claws toothed. Wings hyaline, the scales brown,
lateral scales of the veins narrow and almost linear, petiole of first sub-

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marginal cell nearly as long as this cell, hind cross-vein about its length
from the small. Length 4.5 mm.

^. Palpi slender, the scales and hairs black, the latter, like those of the
antennae, appear whitish in certain lights; proboscis reaching slightly
beyond apex of palpi. Mesonotum with a pair of subdorsal bare vittae on
its anterior two-thirds. Abdomen with a cross-band on the apices of ven
tral segments 3 to 7. Petiole of the first sub marginal cell longer than the
cell. Otherwise as in the female.

Kaslo, British Columbia. One female and ten males bred
from the larvae, June 8 to 16, by Dr. H. G. Dyar ; also ninety
females and thirty-three males bred from the pupas, or captured,
by Dr. Dyar.

Tvpe. No. 8030, U. S. National Museum.

Although so similar to punctor and impiger in the adult state,
the larva is very different, as Dr. Dyar has pointed out to me.

Family MYCETOPHILIDyE.

Eugnoriste brevirostris, n. sp.

Black, the stems of the halteres yellow. Head narrow and elongated,
about three times as long as wide, proboscis slightly longer than the head,
slender, horny, over six times as long as wide. Wings grayish, apex of
first vein a short distance before the forking of the fourth. Length 3.5
mm.

Halfway House, Pike's Peak, Colorado, September. A female
specimen collected by Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell.
Type. No. 7944, U. S. National Museum.

Acnemia varipennis, n. sp.

Yellow, the antennae beyond the second joint, a circle around each
ocellus, a spot in front of each wing the breast largely, a streak at each
hind angle of the mesonotum, the margins of the scute Hum except at the
extreme apex, two longitudinal vittae on lower half of metanotum, a spot
in front of the halteres, the abdomen except bases of segments and the
genitalia, the tarsi except their bases, and the knobs of the halteres, black ;
a pair of widely separated brownish subdorsal vittae on the mesonotum;
hairs and bristles chiefly yellow. Wings grayish hyaline, tinged with
yellow along the costa, first section of third vein clouded with brown, a
brown cross-band extends from apex of marginal cell to apex of third pos
terior cell, becoming grayish posteriorly, a large brown spot along under
side of fifth vein before its apex. Length 5 mm.

Mountains near Claremont, Cal. A female specimen collected
by Prof. C. F. Baker.

Type. No. 8044, U. S. National Museum.

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Phronia tenebrosa, n. sp.

Black, the halteres and legs yellow, the last two pairs of coxae, the hind
edge of the front ones, a streak on underside of each femur near the base,
the apices of the hind femora, and the tarsi except their bases, brown.
Third joint of antennae nearly twice as long as wide, the following joints
becoming successively shorter to the fourteenth which is as wide as long,
first joint slightly longer than wide, the second as wide as long; outer
ocelli contiguous to the eyes. Body grayish pruinose, the hairs and bris
tles yellowish. Lateral bristles of tibiae shorter than the diameter of the
tibiae. Wings hyaline, the apex from a short distance before apex of first
vein to tip of lower fork of fifth vein, and a cloud below the latter, dark
gray ; auxiliary vein attenuated toward its apex, becoming obsolete slightly
beyond middle of first basal cell, third vein strongly bowed toward the
first, ending in the costa at an acute angle only a short distance before
apex of costal vein, fourth vein forks at one-third of distance from the
small cross-vein to the forking of the fifth vein. Length 2.5 mm.

San Mateo Co., Cal. A female specimen collected by Prof.
C. F. Baker.

Type. No. 8031, U. S. National Museum.

Ccelosia pygophora, n. sp.

Black, the first two joints of the antennae, a large humeral spot, the
hypopygium, halteres, coxae, femora, tibiae and bases of tarsi, yellow.
First joint of antennae shorter than the second, wider than long, the
second as wide as long, the third three times as long as wide, the follow
ing joints increasing slightly in length to the eleventh, which is about six
times as long as wide, the remaining joints decreasing in length to the
last one, which is slightly shorter than the preceding joint ; two outer
ocelli separated from the eyes a distance equal to one-half of that between
these ocelli. Body thinly grayish pruinose, the hairs yellowish, the bris
tles on sides of thorax and the hairs on the hypopygium chiefly brown;
hypopygium very large, nearly globular, the two joints of each clasper
subequal in length, the second joint with a long, downwardly directed
process near the base of the under side ; a large, subtriangular piece in the
middle of the upper side of the hypopygium has its point of attachment
on a line with that of the claspers and reaches about to the middle of the
second joint of the latter. Lateral bristles of the tibiae not or scarcely
longer than the diameter of the latter. Wings grayish hyaline, auxiliary
vein terminating in costa slightly before base of third vein, no auxiliary
cross-vein, third vein strongly bowed forward toward its apex, costal vein
extending slightly over half way from apex of third to that of the fourth
vein, the latter forking midway between the small cross-vein and fork of
the fifth. Length 3 mm.

San Mateo Co., Cal. Two male specimens collected by Prof.
C. F. Baker.

Type. No. 8032, U. S. National Museum.

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Platyura pullata, n. sp.

Black, the mouth parts, sides of mesonotum, the scutellum. metanotum,
hind margins of the abdominal segments, the genitalia, venter, coxae,
femora, tibiae, bases of tarsi, and the halteres, yellow; hairs and bristles
chiefly black. Thorax thinly gray pruinose, the abdomen polished.
Wings hyaline, apex of auxiliary vein opposite base of the third, auxiliary
cross-vein near one-fourth of distance from the humeral to apex of auxil
iary vein, upper branch of third vein very oblique, terminating about its
own length beyond apex of first vein, sixth vein prolonged to the wing-
margin. Length 3.5 mm.

Claremont, Cal. A female specimen collected by Prof. C. F.
Baker.

Type. No. 8045, U. S. National Museum.

Family BIBIONIDyE.
Bibiodes, n. gen.

Same as Bibto except that the third vein a short distance beyond its base
coalesces completely with the fourth vein for a distance equal to the
succeeding section of the fourth vein; the small cross-vein is therefore
absent.

lype: The following species :

Bibiodes halteralis, n. sp.

r^. Black, the halteres yellow, the hairs yellowish white. Body
polished. Outer spur of front tibiag very large, the inner one minute;
hind tibiae clavate, enlarging considerably toward the apex, hind tarsi
somewhat swollen. Wings grayish hyaline, stigma brown, first and third
veins and first section of the fourth, brown, remaining veins nearly
colorless.

9- Like the male except that the front coxae, all femora and the front
and hind tibiae are reddish yellow, the femora with a brown stripe on the
upper and lower sides and the hind tibiae with a similar stripe on the
outer side. Length 3 mm.

San Mateo Co., Cal. (C. F. Baker); Los Angeles Co., Cal.,
Dec. 19, Jan. 12, and March 18 (D. W. Coquillett). 'Nine males
and one female.

Type. No. 8033, U. S. National Museum.

Family LEPTID^E.

Symphoromyia securifera, n. sp.

Black; the palpi, halteres, tibiae and apices of femora yellow; hairs
black, those on the occiput except along the upper edge, on the palpi,
pleura, sides and venter of abdomen, coxae and femora, white. Third

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joint of antennas two and one-half times as wide as long, over twice as
wide as greatest width of the first joint; face bare. Head, first joint of
antennae, body, coxae and femora opaque, grayish pruinose, mesonotum
marked with three brown vittae, the median one about one-fourth as wide
as the gray space on either side of it; an oblong brown dorsal spot on
abdominal segments two to five. Wings hyaline, the stigma pale brown.
Length 5 mm.

Santa Clara Co., Cal. A female specimen collected by Prof.
C. F. Baker.

Type. No. 8034, U. S. National Museum.

Family BOMBYLIIDy^.

Phthiria melanoscuta, n. sp.

Black, the sides of the front, posterior half of the cheeks, lateral and
lower margins of the occiput, sides of the mesonotum, a broad vitta on
upper edge and one below middle of pleura, connected by a cross-line
below the wings, a spot above front coxae, the hypopleura, halteres. abdo
men, coxae, femora, tibiae and bases of tarsi, yellow (antennae wanting).
Head polished, face and cheeks almost bare, proboscis about six times as
long as the head, palpi slender, linear, nearly as long as the head. Hairs
of body whitish, scutellum and the black portion of the mesonotum opaque,
velvety. Wings hyaline, stigma grayish, last two sections of fifth vein
subequal in length. Length 2.5 mm.

Dripping Springs, Organ Mrs., N. M. A female specimen
collected in September, 1899. by Prof. T. D. A. Cockerel!.
Type. No. 8013, U. S. National Museum.

Phthiria fulvida, n. sp.

Yellow, a large spot on either side of the face which extends consider
ably on the cheek and slightly on the front, the third antennal joint
except its base, the mouth parts, center of occiput, an ocellar dot, middle
of metanotum and apices of tarsi, black; three vittae on the mesonotum,
a few spots on the upper and lower portions of the pleura, and the narrow-
bases of some of the abdominal segments, reddish yellow. First two
joints of antennae of nearly an equal length, the second wider than long,
the third about four times as long as the first two taken together, its upper
and lower edges almost parallel, but converging toward the apex which is
deeply emarginate ; proboscis about twice as long as the head, palpi rather
robust, dilated toward the apex, reaching slightly beyond apex of second
antennal joint; head polished, face and cheeks almost bare. Hairs of
thorax and scutellum yellowish, mesonotum somewhat polished. Wings
hyaline, apical half of subcostal cell yellowish, last two sections of fifth
vein subequal in length. Length 3.5 mm.

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Frontera, Tabasco, Mexico. A female specimen collected at
light,' April 30, by Mr. C. H. T. Townsend.
Type. No. 8014, U. S. National Museum.

Phthiria marginata, n. sp.

Head yellow, a spot on either side and another above the insertion of
the antennae, an ocellar dot, and center of the occiput, black; antennae
and mouth parts black, antennas formed as in fulvida, proboscis a little
over twice as long as the head, palpi very slender, only slightly dilated
toward the apex, reaching slightly beyond apex of second antennal joint.
Body black, opaque, gray pruinose, sides of mesonotum, spots on the
pleura, the scutellum except a median vitta which is dilated at the base,
and the hind margins of the abdominal segments both dorsally and ven-
trally, yellow; mesonotum with a pair of whitish pruinose vittae near the
middle, hairs of body whitish. Legs dull yellowish, apices of tibiae and
the tarsi except their bases, brown. Wings hyaline, stigma grayish, last
two sections of fifth vein of nearly an equal length. Length 3 mm.

Pecos, New Mexico. A female specimen collected on Sep
tember 4 by Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell.

Type. No. 8015, U. S. National Museum.

Phthiria vittiventris, n. sp.

Head and its members as in marginata except that the black of the occi
put is more extended and at the upper corners sends a spur to each eye,
while the proboscis is over three times as long as the head. Body black,
the sides of the mesonotum, a large spot in front of the scutellum, several
spots on the pleura, the scutellum except a line below the outer edge, a
pair of broad subdorsal vittse on the abdomen, and the middle of the venter,
yellow; mesonotum opaque, grayish pruinose and with a pair of whitish
pruinose subdorsal vittae, black of abdomen somewhat velvety, hairs of
body chiefly yellowish. Legs yellow, the front and hind femora except
their ends, the apices of the tibue, and the tarsi except their bases, brown.
Halteres yellow. Wings hyaline, last two sections of fifth vein of nearly
an equal length. Length 2 mm.

Pecos, N. M., Aug. 29 (T. D. A. Cockerell) ; Las Vegas Hot
Springs, N. M., Aug. 3 (H. S. Barber). Two female specimens.
Type. No. 8016, U. S. National Museum.

Phthiria nubeculosa, n. sp.

Head yellow, a spot on either side of the antennae, another on posterior
half of each cheek, an ocellar dot and the center of the occiput, black;
antennas black, the first joint chiefly yellow, slightly longer than the sec
ond, each wider than long, the third elongate-oval, about three times as
long as the first two. deeply emarginate at the apex; mouth parts black,
proboscis slightly over twice as long as the head, palpi considerably
enlarged toward the apex, almost reaching the tip of the antennae. Body

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black, the sides of the mesonotum, several spots on the pleura, the scutel-
lum except a pair of basal spots, and the "hind margins of the abdominal
segments both dorsallj and ventrally, yellow ; hairs whitish, body gray
pruinose, mesonotum marked with a pair of whitish pruinose subdorsal
vittae. Legs yellow, tarsi except their bases brown. Halteres yellow.
Wings hyaline, stigma pale gray, a faint, almost imperceptible brownish
cloud on the veins and cross-veins at bases of the submarginal and
posterior cells, last Jwo sections of fifth vein of nearly an equal length.
Length nearly 2 mm.

Las Cruces, New Mexico. A female specimen collected by
Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell.

Type, No. 8017, U. S. National Museum.

Phthiria inornata, n. sp.

Head yellow, a spot on either side of the antennae, another on the pos
terior half of either cheek, the ocellar triangle and the occiput except the
lower part, black; face and cheeks polished, nearly bare; antennae black,
formed as in nnbeculosa (mouth parts wanting). Body black, gray prui
nose, mesonotum not vittate, the sides narrowly, a few spots on the pleura,
the scutellum except two brown vittse, and the hind margins of abdominal
segments 2 to 7, yellow, hairs yellowish. Legs brown, the tibise and bases
of tarsi yellow. Halteres brown, the stems yellow. Wings hyaline, a
distinct brown cloud on veins and cross-veins at bases of the submarginal
and posterior cells, at apex of anal cell, and on the second vein, above the
small cross-vein; a small, indistinct cloud near apex of second vein;
stigma pale gray; last section of fifth vein somewhat longer than the
preceding section. Length 2 mm.

Texas. A male specimen collected by Belfrage.
Type. No. SorS, U. S. National Museum.

Phthiria badia, n. sp.

Yellow, a spot on either side of the antenme, another on the posterior
half of either cheek, the ocellar triangle, the antennae and mouth parts
except base of the former, the occiput except the lower portion, and the
middle of the metanotum, black ; the mesonotum except the sides and two
short streaks at the front end, deep reddish brown: the breast and a few
spots on the pleura reddish yellow, tarsi, except at bases, brown. First
two joints of antennae of nearly an equal length, each wider than long, the
third somewhat more than three times as long as the first two, the upper
and lower edges only slightly convex, the apex emarginate; proboscis
about twice as long as the head, palpi rather rob'.ist, enlarging gradually
toward the tip, reaching slightly beyond apex of second antennal joint.
Body opaque, not grayish pruinose, hairs of thorax light yellowish.
Wings hyaline, apical half of subcostal cell yellowish, an indistinct
brownish cloud on the veins and cross-veins at bases of the second sub-

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marginal and of the posterior cells, last two sections of fifth vein of nearly
an equal length. Length 3.5 mm.

Brownsville, Texas. A male specimen collected in May by
Mr. C. H. T. Townsend.

Type. No. 8019, U. S. National Museum.

Phthiria picturata, n. sp.

Yellow, the antennae, mouth parts, center of occiput prolonged as a vitta
over the ocelli and as far as the antennae, the sides of the oral opening
narrowly, three vittae on the mesonotum (the median one abbreviated
posteriorly and greatly dilated anteriorly, the lateral ones abbreviated
anteriorly and emarginate on the outer edge near the transverse suture),
a small spot above each wing, several on the pleura, the metanotum, bases
of the abdominal segments, and the legs except the coxae and median por
tion of the middle femora, black. Head and body polished, hairs of head,
many on the mesonotum and those of the scutellum, black, hairs of cheeks
very sparse and bristle-like. First two joints of antennae of nearly an
equal length, the second wider than long, the third narrow and almost
linear, about four times as long as the first two, emarginate at the apex;
proboscis nearly four times as long as the head, palpi narrow, about one-
fifth as long as the proboscis. Wings hyaline, stigma 'grayish, last two
sections of fifth vein of nearly an equal length. Length 3 mm.

Pecos, N. M., August 25, and Mescalero, N. M. Two females
collected by Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell.

Type. No. 8020, U. S. National Museum.

Phthiria flaveola, n. sp.

Yellow, the proboscis except at base, black, apices of antennae and of
tarsi brown, mesonotum except the sides and a spot in middle of the pos
terior end, yellowish brown, extreme bases of many of the abdominal
segments also yellowish brown, the hairs yellowish. Head and body
opaque, mesonotum thinly gray pruinose. Cheeks nearly bare, first two
joints of antennae of nearly an equal width, each wider than long, the third
about four times as long as the first two, considerably tapering on the
apical half, the narrow apex emarginate; proboscis slightly over twice as
long as the head, palpi slender, considerably enlarged toward the apex,
about one-fifth as long as the proboscis. Wings hyaline, stigma grayish,
last two sections of fifth vein of nearly an equal length. Length 3.5 mm.

San Marcial, New Mexico (T. D. A. Cockerell) ; Merced
Co.. Cal. (D. W. Coquillett). Two female specimens.
Type.- No. 8021, U. S. National Museum.

Phthiria amplicella, n. sp.

Head yellow, ocellar triangle and occiput except its lower edge black,
the hairs whitish, those of the cheeks rather long and quite abundant;
antennas yellow, the third joint except at the base brown, first joint

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slightly longer than the second, the latter wider than long, the third over
four times as long as the first two, nearly straight on the lower edge but
convex on the upper, emarginate at the apex, the hairs along its upper
edge very short and sparse ; proboscis black, somewhat more than twice
as long as the head, palpi yellow, slender, slightly enlarged toward
the apex. Thorax black, thinly grayish pruinose, the humeri and a
spot at base of wings yellow, hairs whitish; scutellum yellow, the bases
of the sides and the under surface black. Abdomen black, apices of the
segments yellow. Legs yellow, greater part of coxae and apices of tarsi
brown. Halteres yellow. Wings whitish, unusually broad, discal cell
very large, last section of fifth vein less than one-half as long as the pre
ceding section. Length 3.5 mm.

Texas. A male specimen.

Type. No. 8022, U. S. National Museum.

Phthiria bicolor, n. sp.

$. Black, the humeri, scutellum except under side and sides at base,
hind margins of the abdominal segments except the first, lower half of
hypopygium, and the halteres except upper side of the knobs, yellow, knees
of the front and middle legs broadly yellowish brown. Frontal triangle
gray pruinose, sides of face polished and nearly bare; first two joints of
antennae subequal in length, each slightly broader than long, the third
joint nearly four times as long as the first two taken together, its upper
and lower edges almost parallel, the apex deeply emarginate and bearing
a short style in the middle of the emargination ; proboscis three times as
long as the head, palpi nearly reaching middle of the third antennal joint,
very slender and almost linear. Body opaque, the genitalia polished,
hairs chiefly whitish, mesonotum somewhat velvety, the sides and front
end grayish pruinose. Wings hyaline, stigma obsolete, small cross-vein
near middle of discal cell, last two sections of fifth vein subequal in length.
9. Black, the head except center of occiput, the sides of the mesono
tum, a vitta through middle of pleura, the scutellum except under surface
and sides toward the base, hind margins of abdominal segments both
dorsally and ventrally, also the halteres, yellow. Mesonotum bluish gray
pruinose. Otherwise as in the male. Length 2.5 mm.

Rio Ruidoso, White Mts., N. M., July 27 (C. H. T. Town-
send) ; Filmore Canyon, Organ Mts., N. M., August 29 (C. H.
T. Townsend) ; and Pecos, N. M.. in August (Mrs. W. P. Cock-
erell). One male and two females.

Type. No. 8023, U. S. National Museum.

Acreotrichus atratus, n. sp.

Black, the halteres and hind margins of ventral segments yellow, hairs
black. First joint of antennae slightly longer than the second, distinctly
longer than wide, the third joint rather slender and of nearly an equal
width, about three times as long as the first two taken together, the upper

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edge bearing about a dozen long bristly hairs, the apex deeply emarginate
and with a short style in the middle of the emargination ; proboscis about
two and one-half times as long as the head, palpi slender and linear,
reaching about to base of the third antenn.il joint. Head, thorax and
scutellum very thinly grayish pruinose, the mesonotum with a median
and lateral vitta of lighter gray. Wings grayish hyaline, tinged with yel
lowish toward the base and costa, apical half of subcostal cell yellow, small
cross-vein slightly beyond middle of discal cell, last section of fifth vein
longer than the preceding section. Length 5 mm.

Head of Rio Piedres Verdes, Sierra Madre, Chihuahua,
Mexico, August 16 (C. H. T. Townsend). A male. specimen.
Type. No. 8024, U. S. National Museum.

Family THEREVID^E.

Psilocephala aurantiaca, n. sp.

Black, the base of the third antennal joint, halteres, apices of femora,
and the tibiae except their apices, dull yellow; palpi pale yellow, segments
2 to 5 of abdomen and the apex of the first reddish yellow ; frontal triangle
and face silvery white pruinose ; third joint of antennae stibequal in length
to the first two and about twice as wide, less than twice as long as wide;
thorax somewhat opaque, grayish pruinose, not distinctly vittate, its hairs
golden yellow, those on lower part of pleura and in front of the halteres
white; scutellum gray pruinose, bearing two bristles; abdomen polished,
the hind angles of the first segment and hind margins of the second, third,
fifth and sixth segments, white pruinose, hj'popygium rather large;
wings hyaline, somewhat grayish along the costa, stigma brown, fourth
posterior cell broadly open. Length 5.5 mm.

Claremont, Cal. A male specimen collected by Prof. C. F.
Baker.

Type. No. 8035, U. S. National Museum.

Family ASILID^.
Leptogaster virgatus, n. sp.

Readily recognized by the three polished vittae on the otherwise prui
nose mesonotum. Head black, grayish pruinose, antennae yellow, the
arista black, mystax and the slender bristles on upper part of occiput
white; thorax reddish brown, light gray pruinose except three polished
vittse on the mesonotum :, abdomen black, brownish pruinose, the first
segment and both ends of the others light gray pruinose; legs yellow, a
broad band before apex of hind femonx and apical half of hind tibiae brown,
apices of tarsi yellowish brown, empodia spine-like, about half as long as
the claws; wings hyaline, the apex narrowly gray, base of fourth pos
terior cell with a long peduncle. Length 13 mm.

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Washington, D. C., June 22 (Nathan Banks); Texas (Bel-
frage). Three female specimens.

Type. No. 7945, U. S. National Museum.

Leptogaster hirtipes, n. sp.

Near murimis, but. with a conspicuous patch of snow-white hairs on the
under side of the penultimate fifth of the hind femora. Head black, light
gray pruinose, antennae yellowish, the arista brown, mystax white, bristles
on upper part of occiput rather stout and chiefly black ; thorax black, the
four corners yellowish, light gray pruinose, mesonotum with three brown
pruinose vittae ; abdomen black, brownish pruinose, the first segment and
both ends of the others gray pruinose; legs yellowish, the enlarged por
tion of hind femora and apical portion of hind tibiae yellowish brown )
apices of tarsi brown, empodia spine-like, about half as long as the claws ;
wings hyaline, base of fourth posterior cell with a short peduncle.
Length n to 14 mm.

Colorado (Morrison), and Rio Ruidosa, White Mts., N. M.,
altitude about 7,600 feet, August 2 (C. H. T. Townsend). Two
males and two females.

7'ype. No. 7946, U. S. National Museum.

Ablautus flavipes, n. sp.

Black, the abdomen except at base, the halteres and legs, yellow, apices
of the femora, of the tibiae and of the tarsi, also a vitta on upper side of
front femora, brown; hairs of head white, bristles of lower side of first
two joints of antennas and on upper part of occiput, yellowish white;
hairs of body white, bristles of thorax pale yellow, abdomen densely yel
lowish gray pruinose, usually marked with a median and a lateral row of
brown spots; hairs and bristles of legs white, the sides of the last three
joints of the front tarsi in the male with a cluster of black hairs, giving
these joints the appearance of being dilated, the bristles of these joints
black; wings hyaline, the veins chiefly yellow. Length 5 mm.

Los Angeles and San Diego Cos., Cal. Three males and two
females, collected by the writer in May.

Type. No. 7947, U. S. National Museum.

Ablautus rubens, n. sp.

Reddish yellow, the hairs and bristles whitish, several on the tarsi
black, most numerous on the hind ones; head, thorax and scutellum
opaque, yellowish gray pruinose, the pleura except the anterior portion,
the under side of the scutellum and middle of the metanotum, polished;
abdomen polished, a pair of small gray pruinose spots on the second and
third segments, sides of abdomen and the venter yellowish gray pruinose;
wings hyaline. Length 6 mm-

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Washington State. A female specimen received from Prof.
O. B. Johnson.

Type. No. 7948, U. S. National Museum.

Stenopogon nigritulus, n. sp.

Black, the first two joints of antennas, halteres, genitalia, and le^s except
the coxse and a vitta on each femur, reddish yellow, the hairs and bristles
yellowish white; third joint of antennae about three times as long as the
style; mesopleura and hvpopleura bare, abdomen thinly gray pruinose;
wings hyaline, veins brown, first and fourth posterior cells broadly open.
Length 10 to 13 mm.

Los Angeles and Kern Cos., Cal. Three males and four
females, collected by the writer in July.

Type. No. 7949, U. S. National Museum.

The genus Stenopogon was founded by Loew as a section of
the old genus Dasypogon* He gave a rather extended descrip
tion of it under the caption " 3te Gruppe des Das. sabaudus.
Stenopogon" and treated of six European species, of which
sabaudus is the sixth and last. It is evident from his heading,
quoted above, that Loew considered this latter species as being
the type of this group or genus, and it should therefore be ac
cepted as such.

In July, 1866, Loew established a closely related genus under
the name of Scleropogon f for a new species from California
which he named picticornis ; he stated that this genus resembles
Stenopogon in several particulars, but differs in the narrower
face and front, shorter third antennal joint, longer style, also in
having the first posterior cell closed before the margin of the
wing and the third posterior cell greatly dilated all of them rel
ative characters which are seldom alike in any two species, and
many of the characters mentioned are found to vary considerably
in the different specimens of the same species.

A recent comparison of specimens which I identified as picti
cornis, with Italian specimens of sabaudus received from Prof.
M. Bezzi resulted in the firm conviction that the most pronounced
difference existing between them is to be found in the nature of
the hypopleura which is bare in sabaudus, but nearly covered
with bristles and hairs in picticornis. Wishing to ascertain if
Loew's type of picticornis was identical in this respect with the
specimens I had referred to this species I applied to Mr. Samuel
Henshaw, the Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoologv
at Cambridge, Mass., who. under date of May 17, 1904, wrote
as follows: "Loew's type of Scleropogon picticornis has a

* Linnaea Entomologica, n, p. 453. 1847.
+ Berliner Ent. Zeit., x, p. 26.

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cluster of bristles and hairs in front of the halteres " that is, on
the hypopleura, agreeing in this respect with my specimens.

An examination of a large series of North American specimens
belonging to nineteen different species in these two genera shows
that this character is equally marked in all of them, the hypo-
pleura being either quite bare, or else nearly covered with bristles
and hairs ; it will therefore be advisable to employ this character
in separating these two genera in place of the variable and unsat
isfactory characters taken from the antennae and wings which
have heretofore been employed for this purpose.

Laphystia flavipes, n. sp.

Black, the halteres, and femora and tibiae except their apices, yellow,
the hairs and bristles whitish; second joint of antennae about two-thirds
as long as the first, the third as long as the first two together, rather
slender, gradually tapering to the apex, the second joint of the style wider
than the first, only slightly longer than wide; head and body densely
gray pruinose, somewhat yellowish on the face, front and mesonotum,
the broad front portion of the abdominal segments two to six except on
the sides, and the narrow hind margins of the first five segments, polished ;
wings hyaline, the auxiliary, first vein and bases of the others, yellow,
remainder of the latter brown. Length nearly 10 mm.

Montana and North Carolina. Two males collected by H. K.
Morrison.

Type. No. 7950, U. S. National Museum.

Laphystia limatula, n. sp.

Differs iromjlavt'pes as follows : Second joint of antennae nearly as
long as the first, the third robust, of nearly an equal width; mesonotum
not gray pruinose except along the lateral and posterior margins, that on
the abdomen very thin, broad posterior ends of the last five segments
reddish yellow.

La Luz,New Mexico. A male specimen collected August 23
by Mr. C. H. T. Townsend.

Type. No. 7951, U. S. National Museum.

Laphystia opaca, n. sp.

Black, the halteres, bases of tibiae and of the hind femora, yellow, the
hairs and bristles whitish ; second joint of antennae about half as long as
the first, the third broad and only slightly tapering to the apex; head and
body densely grayish pruinose, three broad vittae on the mesonotum and
a subtriangular spot at middle of base of abdominal segments two to six,
polished; the median vitta of the mesonotum is on its anterior third;
wings hyaline; auxiliary vein and bases of the others yellow, remainder
of the latter brown. Length 8 mm.

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Padre Island, Texas. A male specimen collected June 29 by
Mr.^C. H. T. Townsend.

Type. No. 7952, U. S. National Museum.

Dioctrodes, n. gen.

Near Dioctria, but the face gently convex, antennae not inserted upon
a protuberance, etc. Head twice as broad as high, front slightly widening
upwardly, face bare above the mystax, bristles of the latter nearly in a
single row, an isolated bristle above each lower corner of the face, oral
margin scarcely projecting; antennae twice as long as the head, the first
joint, one and one-third times as long as the second, the third more than
twice as long as the first two together, of nearly a uniform width, bearing
a small, forwardly directed spine a short distance in front of the middle
of the upper side and with a slight depression just beyond the spine,
style not apparent; body slender, scutellum bearing a marginal pair of
bristles, otherwise bare, abdomen almost bare, legs rather slender, bearing
a few slender bristles, otherwise almost bare, front tibiae devoid of a termi
nal claw, pulvilli large; marginal, submarginal, posterior and anal cells
open, fourth posterior cell separated from the second basal by a cross-vein.

Type: the following species :

Dioctrodes flavipes, n. sp.

Black, the halteres, femora, tibiae except apices of the hind ones, and
bases of the tarsal joints, yellow, the hairs and bristles whitish ; head
grayish pruinose, the front except the narrow lateral margins and center
of face, polished. Thorax yellowish pruinose inside of the humeri, at
base of wings, on hind margin of mesonotum, on the pleura and meta-
notum ; scutellum with a median vitta and the under surface yellowish
pruinose; mesopleura, sternopleura and pteropleura bare. Abdomen
punctured, not pruinose except a small spot at hind angles of the first five
segments. Femora nearly bare, a few hairs and bristles on the under
side. Wings hyaline, the veins brown. Length 7 mm.

Missouri. A male specimen, collected June 19.
7ype. No. 7953, U. S. National Museum.

Metapogon, n. gen.

Near Cyrtopogon* but the face is nearly flat, only slightly swollen on
the lower part, the mystax very sparse except along the oral margin and
composed chiefly of bristles, etc. Head unusually broad, over twice as
broad as high, deeply excavated on the vertex, ocellar tubercle very
prominent, front only slightly widening upwardly, at its lower end about
three-fifths as wide as either eye, face slightly widening below, subequal
in width to the front, eyes unusually prominent (nearly as in Holcocephala
abdominalii}\ antennae less than twice as long as length of head, first
joint subequal in length to the second, the latter as wide as long, each

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bearing a stout bristle on the under side, third joint nearly twice as long
as the first two together, slightly widening outwardly, about five times
as long as its greatest width, style less than half as wide as the third joint
and at most one third as long; proboscis straight, tapering to the tip.
Mesonotum greatly swollen, provided with strong bristles. Abdomen
subcylindrical. Femora with long but slender bristles on the under side,
tibiae and tarsi with strong bristles, front tibiae devoid of a stout spur at
the apex, pulvilli well developed, hind tibiae and their tarsi somewhat
thickened, but not unusually thick. Marginal, submarginal and posterior
cells open, the anal open or closed in the margin, the fourth posterior
with a cross-vein at its base, the fifth separated from the discal by the fourth.

Type: M. gilvipes, n. sp.

Metapogon gilvipes, n. sp.

Black, the first two joints of the antennae and the legs except the tarsi
toward their apices, brownish yellow, the halteres light yellow. Mystax
yellowish, its bristles arranged in three rows on lower half of face, bristles
of occiput whitish, those of the ocellar tubercle black. Antennal style
about one-third as long as the third joint. Bristles of mesonotum black,
the hairs very short and sparse, bristles and hairs of hypopleura white,
mesopleura, pteropleura and sternopleura bare; scutellum rather flat,
nearly bare, with a subapical pair of stout bristles. Abdomen yellowish
gray pruinose, the hind margin of the first segment, a large triangular
spot on the five succeeding segments, covering nearly the whole of the
hind end of each segment and prolonged nearly across the segment in the
middle, also the whole of the seventh segment and the genitalia, polished.
Hairs and bristles of the femora white, bristles of the tibiae and tarsi dark
brown, tarsal claws black. Wings hyaline, veins and cross-veins beyond
base of first submarginal cell indistinctly bordered with pale brown ; small
cross-vein near three-fourths of the length of the discal cell. Length 6.5
mm.

Los Angeles Co., Cal. A female specimen collected by the
writer.

Type. No. 7954, U. S. National Museum.

Metapogon punctipennis, n. sp.

Black, the first two joints of antennas, the tibiae, bases of tarsi, and ex
treme apices of femora, reddish yellow, the halteres pale yellow, all hairs
and bristles white. Antennal style about one-fifth as long as the third
joint, mystax ascending to about three-fourths height of face. Mesonotum
grayish pruinose, marked with a submedian pair of black vittae which ex
tend from the front end three-fourths of the distance to the scutellum, also
with a pair of blackish spots on either side, separated by the suture, hairs
of mesonotum very short and sparse, mesopleura, pteropleura and
sternopleura bare, scutellum flattened, nearly bare, thinly grayish pruinose,

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bearing a subapical pair of stout bristles. Abdomen polished, first seg
ment gray pruinose on the base and sides, second with a gray pruinose
fascia near the base and an oblique spot in each hind angle, segments three
to six each with a gray pruinose fascia at the base connected at either end
with an oblique spot that extends to the hind angle of the segment, the
spots on the third segment of the female separated from the fascia; each
of these fasciae is rather strongly narrowed in the middle of the posterior
side ; a gray pruinose spot on either side of the seventh segment. Wings
hyaline, veins and cross-veins at bases of the discal, posterior and sub-
marginal cells distinctly but rather narrowly clouded with brown, small
cross-vein near two-thirds length of the discal cell. Length 7 mm.

Organ, New Mexico. A specimen of each sex collected by
Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell.

Type. No. 7955, U. S. National Museum.

Cyrtopogon nigricolor, n. sp.

Near rattus, but the bristles of the tibia; are black, the abdomen is largely
polished, etc. Black, the halteres yellowish, the knees narrowly brownish
yellow. Hairs of the front whitish, on the vertex mixed with black, bris
tles of upper part of occiput black, hairs of the lower part white, mystax
mixed white and black, mounting nearly to the antennae, face strongly
convex; first joint of antennae slightly longer than the second, the latter
with a pair of stout black bristles on the under side, third joint one and
one-fourth times as long as the first two taken together, strongly con
stricted a short distance beyond the base and considerably narrowed at the
apex, about three times as long as the slender style. Bristles of the body
and on the tibiae and tarsi black. Brown vittse of mesonotum diffuse, the
hairs sparse and rather short, mesopleura, pteropleura and sternopleura
bare, hairs of hypopleura chiefly black ; scutellum flat, yellowish gray
pruinose, almost bare, with six strong marginal bristles. Abdomen pol
ished, sides of first segment, bases and hind angles of the three following
ones, gray pruinose (the remaining segments may also have had similar
markings but these do not now appear, possibly owing to the partial
greasing of the specimen). Tarsal claws black. Wings hyaline, the
apical half faintly tinged with yellowish, small cross-vein slightly beyond
middle of discal cell. Length 9 mm.

Los Angeles Co., Cal. A female specimen collected by the
writer in June.

Type. No. 7956, U. S. National Museum.

Cyrtopogon tibialis, n. sp.

Near plausor, but the mystax is black and rather sparse, not concealing
the ground color, scutellum flat, etc. Black, the halteres yellow, the tibiae,

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bases of tarsi and extreme apices of femora, reddish yellow. Hairs of
front and on upper edge of occiput black, on remainder of occiput white;
third joint of antennae slightly longer than the first two joints taken
together, greatly widening medially, two and one-third times as long as
the rather slender arista ; face strongly gibbous. Mesonotum gray prui-
nose, marked with a pair of submedian brown vittae not extending on the
posterior portion, and on either side with a pair of large brown spots
separated by the suture, hairs sparse and rather short, bristles black,
mesopleura and sternopleura hairy, pteropleura bare, hairs of hypopleura
whitish, scutellum gray pruinose on the upper surface, sparsely covered
with rather long black hairs most abundant around the margin, devoid of
stout bristles. Abdomen polished, with a bluish tinge on the first five
segments, a gray pruinose fascia on hind part of the first six segments,
that on the first and sixth broadly interrupted in the middle. Hairs of
coxae and femora white, bristles of tibiae and tarsi black, tarsal claws
whitish, their apical third black. Wings hyaline, small cross-vein near
one-third length of discal cell. Length 9.5 to n mm.

Arizona. Three females collected by H. K. Morrison.
Type. No. 7957, U. S. National Museum.

Cyrtopogon maculosus, n. sp.

Near rejectus, but the wings distinctly spotted, thorax with a crest of
hairs, etc. Black, including the halteres. Face strongly gibbous, mystax
black, rather dense, mounting nearly to the antenna?; third joint of
antennae one and one-fourth times as long as the first two taken together,
gradually tapering to the apex, three times as long as the robust style;
hairs of front and on upper edge of occiput chiefly black, on remainder of
occiput whitish. Thorax with the usual brown markings, a median crest
of rather long black hairs, bristles black and rather slender; mesopleura
and sternopleura hairy, pteropleura bare, hairs of hypopleura whitish ;
scutellum strongly convex, yellowish gray pruinose, rather densely cov
ered with long white hairs and with a row of slender black bristles around
the margin. Abdomen polished, the lateral margins narrowly gray prui
nose, produced inward a short distance at the hind angles of each segment.
Hairs and bristles of legs chiefly whitish, tarsal claws black. Wings
hyaline, a distinct brown cloud on veins and cross-veins at bases of the
submarginal, discal and posterior cells, small cross-vein near middle of
discal cell. Length 10 mm.

Pullman, Washington. A female specimen collected April
29, 1902, by Prof. C. V. Piper.

Type. No. 7958, U. S. National Museum.

Cyrtopogon varipennis, n. sp.

Near nebulo, but the first basal cell marked with two black spots near
the middle, etc. Black, the halteres dull yellow. Face rather strongly

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convex, mystax black, somewhat sparse, hairs of front and on upper p^rt
of occiput chiefly black, those on remainder of occiput whitish; third
joint of antennas slightly longer than the first two, gradually tapering to
the apex, only slightly longer than the rather slender style. Mesonotum
quite densely covered with rather long erect b'ack hairs, the bristles
scarcely longer or stouter than the hairs; mesopleura and sternopleura
hairy, pteropleura bare, hairs of hypopleura mixed black and white ;
sctitellum convex, not pruinose, the upper surface rather densely covered
with long whitish hairs, the many marginal bristles very slender, chiefly
white but several are brown on the basal portions. Abdomen polished,
the hind angles of the first six segments marked with a gray pruinose
spot. Hairs and bristles of legs whitish, many of the bristles with brown
bases, tarsal claws black. Wings gray, with a few hyaline spots and
streaks, the costa from apex of auxiliary vein to apex of upper branch of
the third broadly bordered with brown, a dark brown spot in base of first
submarginal cell extending across the marginal, one in base of second
submarginal, first and second posterior, and two near middle of first basal
cell ; of the last two spots one is along the basal part, the other along the
apical portion of the prefurca of the third vein; the brown spot on the
small cross-vein extends to apex of discal cell ; small cross-vein slightly
beyond middle of discal cell. Length 7 to 10 mm.

Washington State. One male and two females collected by
Prof. O. B. Johnson.

Type. No. 7959, U. S. National Museum.

Saropogon luteus, n. sp.

Reddish yellow, apices of antennae brown, the proboscis on apex and
upper side black, all hairs and bristles yellowish; head except on the
vertex, yellow pruinose, pleura and sides of thorax in front of the humeri
yellowish pruinose, abdomen polished, hind angles of segments two to five
yellowish pruinose ; wings brownish along the veins and in the costal cell,
fourth posterior cell rather broadly open. Length n to 17 mm.

Claremont, Cal. (Baker), and Los Angeles Co., Cal. (Coquil-
lett). Three males and seven females taken May 31 and in June.
Type. No. 8036, U. S. National Museum.

Saropogon hyalinus, n. sp.

Very similar to luteus except that the mesonotum is rather densely yel
lowish gray pruinose and marked with three brown vittse, and the wings
are pure hyaline. Length 13 mm.

Los Angeles Co., Cal. A specimen of each sex collected by
the writer.

Type. No. 8037, U. S. National Museum.

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Saropogon semiustus, n. sp.

Black, the abdomen except the first segment, and the apices of the
femora, reddish yellow, the halteres light yellow, all hairs and bristles
whitish; in the female the femora, tibiae and tarsi are also reddish yellow,
the antennae yellowish brown. Body slender, head, thorax, scutellum,
and coxae densely grayish pruinose. Third joint of antennae tapering from
the middle to the tip, one and one-fourth times as long as the first two,
the style very small. Scutellum bearing two bristles. Abdomen polished,
sides of first segment and a spot in hind angles of segments 2 to 5, gray
pruinose. Wings hyaline, the fourth posterior and anal cells open.
Length 10 mm.

San Diego Co., Cal. Four males and two females collected
by the writer.

Type. No. 7960, U. S. National Museum.

Family DOLICHOPODID^E.
Sciapus pruinosus, n. sp.

(^. Head and body bluish green, bases of abdominal segments i to 6
black, genitalia small, the terminal portion black; face bare, yellowish
pruinose, front wholly white pruinose, ^antennae black, the second joint
bearing on its under side one very long and several short bristles, arista
plain, less than one-half as long as the body, proboscis yellow, palpi black,
hairs on lower two-thirds of occiput white; thorax grayish pruinose, the
mesonotum very thinly so, apices of abdominal segments 3 to 6 and the
whole of the seventh thinly grayish pruinose, apex of abdomen devoid of
long bristles. Wings hyaline, costa not ciliate, hairs of calypteres black.
Legs dark green, rlarrow apices of front and middle femora, the whole of
their tibiae and base of the front tarsi yellow, hind tibiae and their tarsi
black; tarsi plain, not ciliate, first two pairs of tibiae bearing two long
bristles on the inner side, the middle tibiae also with two long bristles,
other bristles of these tibiae short, hind tibiae bearing a few short bristles
only. Knobs of the halteres whitish.

9- Same as the male except that the front is not pruinose and the
bristles of the tibiae are rather short.

Length 4.5 to 5 mm.

Miami, Florida. Two males and four females collected by
Mrs. A. T. Slosson.

Type. No. 7961, U. S. National Museum.

Family TACHINID^.

Distichona auriceps, n. sp.

Black, the second joint of antennae and the palpi yellow. Front at nar
rowest point slightly wider than either eye, sides of front and of face

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golden yellow pruinose, a row of about five bristles outside of each frontal
row, the latter descends a short distance below the arista, a patch of bristly
hairs on lower part of sides of face, extending from the vibrissae halfway
to the lowest frontal bristle, facial ridges bristly on the lower three fourths,
vibrissae nearly on a level with the front edge of the oral margin, antennae
slightly shorter than the face, the third joint five times as long as the sec
ond, arista thickened on the basal three-fourths, the penultimate joint
about six limes as long as wide. Thorax grayish pruinose, mesonotum
marked with four black vittae, four pairs of postsutural dorsocentral bris
tles, four sternopleurals, of which the lowest is noticeably smaller than
the others. Abdomen grayish pruinose and with darker reflecting spots,
last three segments with marginal bristles only. Middle tibiaa bearing
three bristles on the anterior outer side, pulvilli of front tarsi elongated.
Wings hyaline, third vein bearing three bristles near the base, first
posterior cell closed in the margin; calypteres whitish. Length 65 mm.

Frontera, Tabasco, Mexico, February 12. A male specimen
collected by Mr. C. H. T. Townsend.

Type. No. 7962, U. S. National Museum.

Family SARCOPHAGID^.

Sarcophaga amblycoryphae, n. sp.

Black, the fourth abdominal segment and the genitalia yellow. Head
gray pruinose, on the face and lower part of sides of front grayish yellow,
vertex three-fifths as wide as either eye, frontal vitta deep brown, on the
upper portion nearly twice as wide as either side of the front at the same
point, two pairs of orbital bristles, frontals descending almost to base of
third antennal joint, antennae three-fourths as long as the face, the third
joint less than three times as long as the second, longest hairs of arista
about four times as long as its greatest diameter. Body gray pruinose,
abdomen with darker reflecting spots, mesonotum marked with three black
vittae, only three pairs of postsutural dorsocentral bristles, these are large
and of nearly an equal length, three sternopleurals in a curved row; mid
dle of dorsum of abdomen bearing only bristly hairs on the first two
segments, the third and fourth segments each with a marginal row of
stout bristles, basal segment of genitalia not cleft dorsally, bearing a mar
ginal row of rather short bristles. Legs devoid of long hairs, hind tibiae
bearing two bristles on the anterior-inner, anterior-outer and posterior-
outer sides besides those at the apex. Wings hyaline, third vein bristly
two-thirds of distance from base to the small cross-vein. Calypteres
whitish. Length 7 mm.

Springfield, Mass. A female specimen bred by Dr. George
Dimmock from a larva that issued from a living adult of Ambly-
corypka oblongifolia.

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Type. No. 7963, U. S. National Museum.

Dr. Dimmock writes that the Amblycorypha was collected on
August 19, 1897, by Miss Annie G. Edwards, who brought it to
him the same day. It appeared to be sickly, and in the evening
two larvae issued from its abdomen and soon pupated, and the
specimen of Sarcophaga, described above, emerged on Septem
ber n of the same year.

Family ANTHOMYID^E.
Pegomya bucculenta, n. sp.

Black, the frontal triangle usually deep brown, the halteres yellow.
Eyes approximated, frontal vitta at narrowest point narrower than the
lowest ocellus, sides of face broad, projecting nearly the length of the
third antennal joint in front of the eyes, third joint of antennae nearly
twice as long as the second, about two-thirds as wide as long, arista nearly
bare, thickened on the basal fourth, epistoma only slightly produced,
cheeks broader than sides of face, proboscis rather robust, labella small.
Thorax grayish pruinose, not distinctly vittate, three pairs of postsutural
dorsocentral bristles, sternopleurals one and two, discal pair of scutellar
bristles much longer than the bristly hairs. Abdomen narrow, olive gray
pruinose and with a broad black dorsal vitta, hairs of upper side of abdo
men long and nearly erect, venter devoid of bristles of an unusual length,
genitalia projecting nearly the length of the last abdominal segment
beyond the apex of the latter. Front tibiaa bearing a single bristle, situ
ated on the inner-posterior side, middle femora ciliate with long bristles
on the basal two-thirds of the under side, their tibiae bearing three long
bristles on the outer-posterior side and two on the inner-posterior side,
hind femora ciliate on nearly the entire length of the under side with
rather long bristles and hairs, their tibiae bearing two rather short bristles
on the inner-anterior side, four long ones on the outer-anterior side,
three long and one rather short one on the outer-posterior side, the inner-
posterior side usually with two small ones; pulvilli rather short. Wings
hyaline, the extreme base dark gray, costal spines very short and scarcely
perceptible, auxiliary spine as long as the small cross-vein, last section of
fourth vein straight. Calypteres whitish. Length 5 mm.

Mountains near Claremont, Cal. Two male specimens col
lected by Prof. C. F. Baker.

Type. No. 8038, U. S. National Museum.

Family MICROPEZID^.
Nerius longicornis, n. sp.

Head brown, the lower part of the front, the face and lower part of the
head, yellow, two black spots along the front border of each eye near the

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junction of the front and face, and a brown vitta extending from middle
of hind border of each eye to the neck; antennas brown, the second joint
and base of the first joint yellow, apical slender portion of the arista white ;
second joint of antennae nearly four times as long as the first; mouth
parts brown. Body brownish black, grayish pruinose, mesonotum marked
with three median brown vittae, sometimes confluent, the sides and pleura
with many brown dots; scutellum and abdomen with a broad median
brown vitta, sides of abdomen with many brown dots. Legs brownish
yellow, usually a paler ring before the apex of each femur. Wings gray
ish hyaline, the outer portion beyond apex of auxiliary vein tinged with
brown along the costa and veins. Halteres yellow, the knobs brown.
Length 8 to 9 mm.

San Diego, Tex. (E. A. Schwarz) and Brownsville, Tex.
(C. Schaeffer, C. H. T. Townsend) ; Tucson, Arizona, Feb. 8
and 10 and Dec. 30 (H. G. Hubbard) ; Los Angeles Co., Cal.,
March (D. W. Coquillett). Two males and twelve females.

Type. No. 7781, U. S. National Museum.

Family SAPROMYZID^S.

Lauxania signatifrons, n. sp.

Black, the first two joints of antennae, extreme apices of femora and the
halteres, yellow, the antennal arista, tibiae and tarsi yellowish white.
Front thinly grayish pruinose, in the middle of each side a pair of
elongated velvet-black spots, the outer one contiguous to the eye, the
other between this on.e and the middle of the front, the orbital bristles
situated between the two spots which form each pair; face strongly
convex, polished, the orbits gray pruinose; antennae longer than the face,
narrow, of nearly an equal width, the third joint three times as long as
the second, arista very long-plumose. Thorax thinly grayish pruinose,
upper side of scutellum wholly velvety-black, abdomen polished. Wings
yellowish gray, darkest in the marginal cell. Length 3 mm.

Brownsville, Texas. A single specimen collected by Mr.
Charles Schaeffer.

Type. In museum of Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences.

Sapromyza picticornis, n. sp.

Yellow, the narrow frontal vitta, four vittae on the mesonotum, two on
the pleura and two on upper side of the scutellum, brownish, an ocellar
dot, the first two joints of antennae, the arista except at base, a round spot
jn middle of lower part of the face, the palpi, a pair of subapical spots on

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the scutellum, a transverse row of three spots on each segment of the
abdomen except the first two, and a band near the bases of the hind
tibiae, black, the hairs and bristles also black; the spots on the abdomen
are least distinct toward its base. Third joint of antennae oblong, about
one and one-half times as long as wide, arista long-plumose. Wings
yellowish hyaline, small and hind cross-veins narrowly bordered with
brown. Length 3.5 mm.

Chinandega, Nicaragua. A single specimen collected by Prof.
Carl F. Baker.

Type. No. 7964, U. S. National Museum.

I have also examined a specimen of this species collected by-
Mr. Charles Schaerler near Brownsville, Texas.

Family DROSOPHILID^.
Drosophila ordinaria, n. sp.

Distinguished by the arrangement, of the fronto-orbital bristles. Yel
low, the broad hind margins of the abdominal segments, except in middle
of the dorsum, brown. Front opaque, somewhat velvety, orange yellow,
at the insertion of the orbital bristles polished, a few hairs on the lowest
fourth; the three orbital bristles on either side in a longitudinal row, the
middle one very small, the front one proclinate, the other two somewhat
reclinate; the bristle next below each vibrissa less than one-fifth as long
as the latter. Mesonotum and abdomen polished. Wings grayish hya
line, unmarked, last section of fifth vein less than half as long as the
penultimate section of the fourth. Length 2.5 mm.

White Mountains, N. H. Three specimens collected by H. K.
Morrison.

Type. No. 7965, U. S. National Museum.

Family GEOMYZID^.

Sinophthalmus, n. gen.

Near Anthomyza, but the face strongly carinate in the middle, etc. Head
about as wide as high, slightly longer at the vibrissae than at base of an
tennae, front narrowing anteriorly, at vertex nearly twice as wide as either
eye, postvertical bristles very small, two pairs of vertical bristles, one of
ocellar, three pairs of frontal bristles, arranged in two longitudinal rows
on the upper half of the front, the lowest pair proclinate, the others recli
nate; antennae two-thirds as long as the face, the second joint furnished
with a rather long bristle on the upper side, the third suborbicular but

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somewhat truncated at the base, slightly longer than the second, arista
almost bare, the penultimate joint wider than long; face with a high
median carina which extends from the lower edge of the front to three-
fourths of the length of the face; vibrissae well-developed, inserted dis
tinctly above the level of the middle of the lower edge of the face, clypeus
strongly projecting, eyes bare, distinctly higher than long, five times as
high as width of cheek, occiput strongly concave on the upper half where
it projects very little beyond the eyes, on the lower half it projects strongly
behind the eyes. Thorax bearing two pairs each of acrostichal, dorso-
central, supra-alar, notopleural and sternopleural bristles, one humeral,
scutellum bearing four marginal bristles. Legs robust, front femora
ciliate with a few bristles on the under side, other femora and all tibiae
devoid of bristles. Auxiliary vein distinct on slightly over its basal half,
the remainder obsolete, the anal and both basal cells,complete, hind cross-
vein present, anal angle well-developed.

Type: The following species :

Sinophthalmus pictus, n. sp.

Head yellow, an ocellar dot, two dots on each cheek, the sides of the
clypeus and the occiput except the lower part and middle of the upper,
black; antennae and palpi yellow, proboscis largely brown, robust, and
with large labella. Thorax black, grayish pruinose and marked with
many brown dots and a few brown spots; scutellum gray pruinose, a pair
of brown spots near the base, a black or brown spot occupies most of the
apical half except the sides and extreme apex, also a black dot at base of
each bristle comprising the first pair. Abdomen opaque black, the first
two segments except a spot toward each side of the second, the narrow
hind borders of the next two, and the front ends of the following two,
yellow and covered with a whitish pruinosity. Legs black, the knees,
two bands on each tibia, and the tarsi except their apices, yellow. Wings
hyaline, pale grayish along the costa, a brown cloud on the hind and the
small cross-vein, a brown dot near middle of last section of the fourth
vein. Length 3 to 3.5 mm.

Mountains near Claremont, Cal. (C. F. Baker) ; Yosemite,
Cal., September 3. Twelve specimens. Reported as being an
noying to the eyes of visitors to the locality last mentioned.

Type. No. 8039, U. S. National Museum.

Family AGROMYZID^E.
Agromyza taeniola, n. sp.

Near magnicornis, but the third joint of the antennae is very small, the
mesonotum not pruinose, etc. Black, the proboscis, narrow lateral mar-

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gins of the mesonotum, narrow hind margins of the abdominal segments,
the hypopygium and halteres, yellow, second joint of antennae and the
knees narrowly yellowish brown. Apparently three pairs of dorsocentral
bristles, the anterior pair situated slightly behind the suture. Abdomen
polished. Wings hyaline, veins brown, strong, small cross-vein near
middle of the discal cell, last two sections of fifth vein subequal in length,
costal vein prolonged beyond the end of the fourth. Length 2 mm.

Mountains near Claremont, Cal. A male specimen collected
by Prof. C. F. Baker.

Type. No. 8040, U. S. National Museum.

[ISSUED JULY 30, 1904.]

TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER.

PAGE.

BANKS, NATHAN: Two new species of Cadd ice-flies, 140; Notes on

the structure of the thorax and maxillae in Insects 149

CHITTENDKN, F. H. : On the species of Sphenophorus hitherto con
sidered as simplex LeConte, 127; On the species of Sphe
nophorus hitherto considered as placidus Say 130

COQUILLETT, D. W. : New Diptera from India and Australia, 137 ; New

North American Diptera 166

DYAR, HARRISON G. : Two new forms of CEneis Huebner, 142 ; Notes

on synonymy and larvae of Pyralidae 158

DYAR, HARRISON G., and KNAB, FREDERICK: Diverse Mosquito

larvae that produce similar adults 143

HEIDEMANN, OTTO : Notes on North American Aradidae, with de
scriptions of two new species 161

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The iSSth regular meeting was held at the Saengerbimd Hall,
314 C street, N.W. In the absence .of the President and both
Vice-Presidents, Dr. Ashmead was called to the chair. Present :
Messrs. Benton, Currie, Knab, Kotinsky, Patten and Ulke.

It was moved and seconded that two delegates be appointed to
represent the Society at the International Geographic Congress
to convene in Washington in .September.*

Mr. C. L. Pollard was transferred from the jiist of active mem
bers to that of corresponding members, to date from January i,
1904.

Mr. Knab, for Mr. Caudell, exhibited four specimens, two
cTc? and two 9 ? , of the grasshopper Rhadinotatum brevipenne
Thomas, showing ,the color variation to which this species is
subject. The specimens were collected at Macon, Georgia, by
Mr. Kotinsky. One of the 9 $ js wholly brown, the other has
the posterior femora and the sides of the elytia, prothorax and
head green, while both <$$ are grass-green on the dorsal sur
face of the head, prothorax and elytra. The species has not
before been recorded outside of Florida, although mentioned in
Thomas' paper on " Insects Collected West of the ipoth Meri-

* Dr. Theo. Gill and Mr. Frank Benton were subsequently appointed
by the President.

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dian," to note that it should be removed to another genus from
Tryxalis the one in which it was described. In characterizing
the genus Rhadinotatum, McNeill states that the posterior tibia
has about 25 spines on the outer margin, and this has since been
used as a synoptic character by Scudder and Bruner. Mr.
Caudell had examined fifteen specimens, including the types,
and found the usual number to be about 18, the greatest number
found being only 21.

Dr. Ashmead remarked that Rhadinotatum belongs io a group
which is less abundant in the North than in the South. He had
found similar forms in Florida and always in low-lying grassy
land. Mr. Kotinsky stated that his specimens were likewise
found in low grassy land. He said that the insects depended upon
protective coloration for concealment, and if one observed care
fully the spot where they alighted on the grass blades they could
readily be picked up with the fingers.

Mr. Knab further noted for Mr. Caudell that Dr. Howard
had collected a <$ of Trimerotropis filosa McNeill, in Mexico.
The species was described from California and this is the first
record of it since its description.

Dr. Ashmead reported the receipt of two more sendings of
Philippine Hymenoptera from Manila, one from Father W. A.
Stanton and the other from Father Robert Brown. The new
forms contained in these sendings will increase the list of species
additional to those already recorded as occurring in the Philip
pines to 43.* He mentioned several of these among them a
little Entedonid belonging to the genus Closterocerzis of West-
wood. Mr. Ashmead said he considered it remarkable that
Father Stanton had found so many species, and new ones at that,
since all his collections had been made in the gardens of the ob
servatory in Manila. It indicated, however, what a vast num
ber of undiscovered species there must be in the Philippine
Islands and what a wealth of material might be secured from a
thorough collecting exploration of the surrounding country.

Mr. Kotinsky stated that during the summer of 1903 six or
eight colonies of the Asiatic ladybird ( Chilocorus similis Rossi)
were introduced by the Department of Agriculture into various

*InJourn. N. Y. Ent- Soc f , xn, No. i, pp. 1-22, March, 1904.

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parts of Georgia. Upon going again to Georgia this past spring
he had visited four or five of these colonies, and in only two had
a favorable increase in the number of individuals been made. A
colony established at Marshallville contained a year ago 40,000
beetles, but this spring there were none to be found. This Mr.
Kotinsky attributed to the fact that the part of the orchard con
taining the beetles had been sprayed with lime, salt, and sulphur
wash, and that this had killed them. A colony had accidentally
established itself in an adjoining orchard, but owing to improper
care, it was weak in numbers this spring.

The' immense colony of what afterward turned out to be C.
bivulnerus, found in a section of plum trees in this same orchard
feeding upon Pulvinaria amygdali Cockerel 1, with which these
trees were badly infested, was at first mistaken for the imported
beetle, owing to the large numbers of pupae found congregated
together.

Taking it all in all, it may be said that owing to improper care
of the various colonies established in Georgia due to ignorance
of the habits of the beetle on the part of the orchard managers
none of the colonies was in a very thriving condition. Mr.
Kotinsky said he suggested to these managers to collect and trans
fer a colony of the beetles, each summer, to a section of the
orchard they did not expect to spray the following year since
he was informed that no orchard is entirely sprayed each year.

Mr. Kotinsky ventured the supposition that possibly the colony
on plum trees, referred to above, might be a cross of the two
species (Chilocorus bivulnerus and C. similis}, retaining the
structural characters of bivulnerus and the prolific breeding of
similis.

In conclusion, he observed that in shipping the ladybirds alive
precautions must be taken that there is not, in the shipping cases,
sufficient ventilation to cause a drying up of the enclosed twigs,
since these beetles suffer much more from lack of moisture than
from lack of food. All possibility of the rattling of the enclosed
twigs must be avoided, also, and this, it seems, can only be ac
complished by tacking the twigs to the box in which they are
packed, for some evaporation will take place under all circum
stances and this will cause the twigs to contract so as to become
loosened.

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Referring to Mr. Kotinsky's suggestion that the colony of
beetles found on plum trees might be a cross between Chiloco-
r2is bivulnerus and C. similis, Mr. Ulke stated that there has
yet been no authentic record of hybridization or crossing among
beetles. Dr. Ashmead said he had found Chilocorus bivulnerus
extremely abundant on Lecanium on orange in Florida, and also
on oak, and that he had observed strings of pupse on the Spanish
moss, showing that this species is sometimes a prolific breeder
and has the habit of congregating in numbers for pupation.

Mr. Benton exhibited a beehive to show the ingenious method
by which certain varieties of honey bees protect their hives from
the entrance of insect enemies. These defenses consist of a row
of stout, columnar pillars, made of gnawings of wax mixed with
propolis and built in the hive entrance. They were made by
some bees recently imported from the Island of Cyprus. Mr.
Benton pointed out that all Oriental races of honey bees, in con
tradistinction to those of Europe, construct th'ese defenses, which
serve to prevent the entrance of the death's-head moth (Sphinx
utropos] and the Oriental wasp ( Vespa orientalis], two insects
which are injurious to honey bees in the Orient, the former by
occasionally robbing them of their honey and the latter by prey
ing upon the bees themselves. When imported into this country,
where they are free from these two insect enemies, the bees keep
up the habit of building these defenses for two or three seasons
only, and then abandon it. The Carniolan, Austrian, and Ger
man bees do not make the defenses, either in this country or in
their home in Europe. Mr. Benton referred, in this connection,
to the curious defenses made by the stingless honey bees (Mcli-
pona and Trigona} and which formed the subject of a paper
presented by him some years ago before the Society.* In that
paper he had alluded also to the entrance defenses made by cer
tain varieties of Apis in ell if era.

Mr. Currie read extracts from letters received from Mr.
Schwarz at Cayamas, Cuba, and Mr. Barber, at Brownsville,
Texas, describing entomological conditions in those localities.
Mr. Schwarz mentioned in his letter having secured at Cardenas,

* Proc. Ent. Soc., Wash., m, pp. 18-23, March S, 1894 (paper read
March 9, 1893).

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through the kindness of a friend of Mr. Eduardo Ferrer, a speci
men of the genuine Jejen ( (Eca eta fur ens Poey), the Chirono-
mid which is such a pest at that locality, and which has much
the same habits as our sandflies in the United States. Mr.
Schwarz stated in his letter that certain Cuban birds feed upon
the cotton boll weevil in Cuba and are instrumental in diminishing
its numbers.

The Secretary presented for Dr. Dyar the following paper :

DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW FORMS OF THE GENUS ILLICE

WALKER.

By HARRISON G. DYAR.

The number of species and varieties in this genus is more
numerous than has been heretofore conceded. The following
table will separate the forms at present known to me :

Anal angle of fore wing produced, red-tipped schtvarziorum Dyar.

Anal angle of fore wing not produced, not red-tipped.

Fore wing smooth gray; hind wing bright pink (rarely yellow).

Fore wing with a yellow band, rarely divided or lost, but if so the

costal or marginal remnants are angular.
Disk of thorax gray.

Head and collar yellow.

Fore wings gray, the yellow band moderate or narrow.

Band of fore wings moderate, untfascfa Grote & Robinson.
Band of fore wings narrow or broken,

var. tenuifascia Harvey.
Fore wings blackish gray ; band very broad,

var. kentuckiensts Dyar.

Head and collar pink var. perrosea Dvar.

Head gray var. barnesiiT>y^.r.

Disk of thorax and head yellow angelus Dyar.

Fore wings with a rounded yellow dorsal spot.

This spot joined to base by a ray along dorsal margin.

Fore wings with a costal yellow stripe injecta Dyar.

Fore wings with no costal yellow stripe.

Head pink var. gamma Dyar.

Head gray striata Ottolengui.

No ray along the dorsal margin nor above it plumbed Stretch.

A ray from the spot to base above the dorsal margin,

subjecta Walker.

Fore wings gray irrorated with whitish, not smooth and slaty.
Head gray on vertex.

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Fore wing with small whitish dorsal spot near tornus,

dorsimacula Dyar.

Fore wing with a broken band forming a large angular spot de
tached from margin liberomacula Dyar.

Head white on vertex.

Band of fore wings not attaining costa nexa Boisduval.

This band attaining costa.

The band soiled whitish ,....faustinttla Boisduval.

The band pale gray var. fusca Stretch.

Illice unifascia Grote & Robinson.
Variety kentuckiensis, n. var.

Vertex of head, collar and patagia dark yellow, disk of thorax gray, ab
domen pink. Fore wings dark blackish leaden gray; a very broad trans
verse band of yellow occupying fully one-third of the wing, broadly joined
to base on inner margin. Hind wing pink with narrow outer gray border.
Size as usual.

One specimen, Kentucky (Geo. Franck).
Type. No. 7966, U. S. National Museum.

Variety perrosea, n. var.

Vertex of head, collar, thorax, except center of disk, and abdomen pink.
Fore wings smooth slaty gray; a straight, slightly oblique rather narrow
pink band parallel to the outer margin joined to base along inner margin,
rarely obsolete. Hind wings pink with a rather broad outer gray border.
Size large.

Five specimens, Los Angeles, California (D. W. Coquillett).
Type. No. 7967, U. S. National Museum.

Variety barnesii, n. var.

Head, collar and thorax gray, except the inner edge of patagia, and
sometimes base of collar, which is yellow ; band of fore wings yellow, nar
row, usually broken, upright, not parallel to outer margin, narrowly
Joined to base along inner margin. Hind wing pink, pale orange or yel
low, with outer border broad at apex. Size large.

Seven specimens, Glen wood Springs, Colorado (Wm. Barnes).
Type. No. 7968, U. S. National Museum.
Two other specimens from Texas agree in having a gray head,
but the collar is yellow and they are of the usual size.

Illice angelus, n. sp.

Head, collar and thorax yellow, abdomen pink. Fore wings elongate,
light slaty gray, shining; band yellow, slightly oblique, even, broad,
joined to base along inner margin. Hind wing pink with gray border to
ward apex. Expanse 23 to 28 mm.

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Seven specimens, Bright Angel, Arizona (H. S. Barber).
Type. No. 7969, U. S. National Museum.

Illice injecta, n. sp.

Head and collar yellow or pink, the disk of thorax diffusely gray shaded
or without gray. Fore wings slaty gray; a broad costal yellow stripe,
diffused or spreading below; a rounded angular spot before tornus joined
to base by a stripe on inner margin. Hind wings pink with a gray spot
at apex. Expanse 18 to 22 mm.

Seven specimens, Kirk wood, Missouri (Mary Murtfeldt) ;
Tryon, North Carolina (W. F. Fiske) ; Plummer's Island, Mary
land (E. A. Schwarz) ; Badger, Wisconsin (Barlow).

Type. No. 7970, U. S. National Museum.

This is Hampson's " Illice unifascia ab. 5."

Variety gamma, n. var.

The yellow costal stripe is lacking and the border of hind wings is ex
tended.

One specimen (Meske collection).

Type. No. 7971, U. S. National Museum.

Illice dorsimacula, n. sp.

Head, thorax and fore wings sandy gray, mixed of cinereous and whit
ish scales; a small, sordid white spot on dorsal margin before tornus and
trace of a minute one above it near middle of wing. Hind wing sordid
rosv with gray apical margin. Expanse 20 mm.

One specimen, Los Angeles, California (D. W. Coquillett).
Type. No. 7972, U. S. National Museum.

Illice liberomacula, n. sp.

Head and thorax sandy gray, collar in part whitish. Fore wings gray;
an irregularly lunate, sordid silvery white mark above inner margin below
end of cell, joined to costa by a more or less complete row of small dots.
Hind wing sordid ochraceous, costa and apex more or less broadly gray.
Expanse 17 to 19 mm.

Three specimens, Los Angeles, California (D. W. Coquillett).
Type. No. 7973, U. S. National Museum.

The following paper by Mr. Coquillett was read by the
Secretary :

* Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., n, p. 366, 1900.

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NOTES ON THE SYRPHID FLY PIPIZA RADICUM WALSH

AND RILEY.

By D. W. Coquiu.ETT.

This species was originally described from a female specimen
bred May 23, 1868, by B. D. Walsh, from a larva found feeding
upon Schizofacura lanigerd in November, 1867, at Duquoin,
Illinois.* In his " Bibliography of the writings of Walsh and
Riley, "t Mr. Samuel Henshaw indicated that this specimen is
in Washington, D. C., but this was evidently an error on the
part of his informant, since no trace ot" it can be found either in
the National Museum or among the insects in the collection of
the U. S. Department of Agriculture. As this specimen was
bred by Walsh it in all probability formed a part of his collec
tion which was destroyed by fire in Chicago.

In the ISfauonal Museum collection is a female specimen of a
Pipiza, labeled as having also been bred from a larva found
preying upon Schizoneura lanigcra, presumably at Washing
ton, D. C., the date of emerging being given as April 6, 1879;
it bears the note-book number 57, but the particular note-book
which refers to it does not at present appear to be in the posses
sion o|, either the Department of Agriculture or of the National
Museum. Judging by the data attached to this specimen, it is
, one of those referred to by Prof. J. t^. Comstock in his annual
report as Government entomologist for the year 1879, where the
species is called fct The root louse syrphus fly, presumably the
Pipiza radicum of Walsh and Riley."* The present specimen
agrees well with the original description of this species, and, hav
ing similar habits, is without much doubt identical with it.

Osten, Sacken wrongly credited this species to Riley, and made
the .statement that it' is "apparently the same as femoralis
'Loevy." Why it' was so considered is not apparent, since there
is no mention \}\ the original description of the yellow cross-band
'on the second abdominal segment, which is such a conspicuous
feature in the last-named species. Dr. Williston placed it, with
,a query, as a. synonym Q^ femoralis\ without making any com
ment thereon ; he. also wrongly credited it to Riley.

A recent comparison of the original description of radicum
with those of the other species occurring in our fauna showed a

* American E'rvt., i, p. 83. January. 1869.
+ Page 374.

% Report Cotnm. Agric. for 1879, P- 2 59-
Catalogue Diptera N. Am., p. 120, 1878.
|| Synopsis N. Amer. Syrphidae, p. 26, 1886.

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close agreement with only one of them, that of plstica Willis-
ton, and the two specimens upon which the latter is based, which
are now in the National Museum, agree well with this descrip
tion as also with the specimen referred to above as having been
bred from Schizoneura lanigcra. Thus the synonymy of pis-
tica with radicum is quite certain, and the species should, there
fore, be known henceforth as Pipiza radicum Walsh and Riley,
which is the older name.

The following paper by Mr. Banks was read by title :

A LIST OF NEUROPTEROID INSECTS, EXCLUSIVE OF ODO-
NATA, FROM THE VICINITY OF WASHINGTON, D. C.

By NAJTHAN BANKS.

The vicinity of Washington is well suited to many Neuropte-
roid insects, but the Trichoptera are not nearly as abundant as
in the mountainous regions to the north. The Psocidse are par
ticularly numerous here, both in species, and in individuals.

This fauna has, of course, not been fully explored, but such a
considerable showing is made in the following list that it is
thought desirable to publish in the hope of stimulating others to
collect in this group. In all, 174 species are recorded, distrib
uted as follows: Archiptera 73, Neuroptera 47, Trichoptera 54.
The leading family, in point of numbers, is the Psocida3, with 31
species ; two families, the Termitidas and AscalaphidaB, are each
represented by but one species.

In Virginia a few southern forms are found, and in the Poto
mac valley there is a southward extension of many northern
species. As a whole, however, the fauna is like that of the east
ern coast States.

Compared with the Neuropteroid fauna of the arid southwest
there are very radical differences. I do not think there are more
than a half a dozen species common to this list and the lists of
Arizona and New Mexico which I have recently published.

The types of the new species are in the author's collection.

Order AROHIPTERA.

Suborder ISOPTERA.
Family TERMITID^.
Termes flavipes Kollar.

Common throughout the region. There is probably another
species with us, but it is not certain which form is the true T.
Jlavtpes.

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Suborder CORRODENTIA.
Family PSOCIDyE.
Psocus virginianus Banks.

Inhabits the crevices of old fence-rails. Falls Church, Va.,
from July to September.

Psocus sparsus Hagen.

From Falls Church, Va., and Plummer's Island, Md., July to
October.

Psocus lugens Hagen.

From Falls Church and Glencarlyn, Va., in August.
Psocus mcestus Hagen.

Several from Falls Church, Va., in June.
Psocus atratus Aaron. .

Several from trunk of tulip tree, Falls Church, Va., in July.
Psocus trifasciatus Provancher.

P. speciosus Aaron.

One from Falls Church, Va., in September.
Psocus hageni, n. n.

P. contaminatus Hagen, 1861 (not Stephens, 1836).

Rather common on tree-trunks, from July to September.
Psocus striatus Hagen.

On old fences and old rails, often with P. purus. Falls
Church, Va., from July to September.
Psocus purus Walsh.

On old fences and old rails. Falls Church, Va., in Septem
ber.
Psocus leidyi Aaron.

On trunks of living trees ; also on lichens on rocks, Falls
Church, Va., and Washington, from July to September. One
of our most common species.
Psocus variabilis Aaron.

Very common on maple-tree trunks, Washington, D. C., and
Falls Church, Va., in July and August.
Psocus pollutus Walsh.

Two from Falls Church, Va., in October.
Psocus perplexus Walsh.

* One specimen, probably this species, from Falls Church, Va.,
25th June.

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Psocus slossonse Banks.

One from Falls Church, Va., izth July ; one from Glencarlyn,
Va., July, and one from Plummer's Island, Md., i6th July.

Psocus bisignatus, n. sp.

Head black, nasus with eight pale lines, two prominent pale spots on
vertex, and oblique pale marks downwards from the ocelli ; clypeus wholly
black; antennae pale brown, basal joints darker. Mesothorax black, a
median spot behind, and two dots on each side behind, yellowish ; meta-
thorax black, with a median pale spot; abdomen black, the segments nar
rowly margined with yellowish; legs yellowish brown, darker on tips of
femora and tibiae. Wings hyaline, an incomplete black band just before
cell, a small black spot at base of the pterostigma, and a larger spot in
apex, extending outward ; venation mostly dark, base of the fork of sector,
most of vein closing cell below, part of that on apical side, and the vein
around pterostigma (except near angle) pale yellowish; hind wings hya
line, venation brown. Vertex convex; antennae shorter than wings, and
with very short fine hair; discal cell very plainly 5-sided, the apical side
curved inward ; pterostigma with prominent angle, which is prolonged
into a distinct spur. Length, 3.2 mm. (Genitalia, Plate II, Fig. 10.;

Two specimens from Falls Church, Va., 25th June,
Psocus elegans, n. sp.

Head pale, almost white, nasus wholly dark brown, with a brown exten
sion to each eye; clypeus brown; a few dark dots behind each eye; an
tennae pale, basal joints white. Mesothorax dark brown, margined with
pale behind; metathorax paler brown ; abdomen pale; legs pale. Fore
wings whitish-hyaline, a more or less complete black band starting from
base of pterostigma and extending obliquely backward; a black spot in
apex of pterostigma extending outside, base of pterostigma faintly clouded,
and black spots in the bases of the four posterior cells; sometimes one or
two other small black spots in apical part of wing; hind wings hyaline;
venation pale, except where touched by the black marks. Head narrow
below; vertex deeply emarginate; eyes very prominent; antennae shorter
than wings, sparsely clothed with rather long hairs; nasus hairy; discal
cell 4-sided or almost so, lower side fully two-thirds length of upper, outer
side but little longer than upper; pterostigma rounded behind. Length
3 mm.

Three specimens from Falls Church, Va., i2th and ryth July,
and 5th August; one from bark of whitewood, and two from
bark of chestnut trees.
Cerastipsocus nervosus Burmeister. ,

In colonies on trunks of trees, Falls Church, Va., August and
September.
Polypsocus corruptus Hagen.

Abundant on the leaves of trees from July to September,

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Peripsocus madidus Hagen.

On the ground, among dead leaves, etc., at Falls Church, Va.,
and on rocks at Glencarlyn, Va., September and October.
Peripsocus permadidus Walsh.

A few only, found with the preceding.
Ptilopsocus annulicornis Banks.

One specimen on chestnut bark, 8th June, Falls Church, Va.
Elipsocus canadensis Provancher.

One specimen from Falls Church, Va., i6th July.
Csecilius aurantiacus Hagen.

Common on the leaves of various trees from July to September.
Caecilius pinicola Banks.

Falls Church and Glencarlyn, Va.. July to September. This
species lives in pine trees.
Csecilius rufus Walsh.

Falls Church, Va., in dead leaves, September and October.
Pterodela pedicularia Liang.

Abundant on fresh wood, in old furniture, about houses, on
wood piles, etc., from July to October.
Amphientomum hageni Packard.

On bark of living and dead trees, old rails, etc., Falls Church,
Va., and Washington, D. C., from July to October.
Troctes divinatoria Fabricius.

About houses, common everywhere.
Troctes bicolor Banks.

Running over dry boards, Falls Church, Va., in June.
Troctes niger Banks*

Beneath dead and decaying logs in woods at Falls Church, Va.,
in June.
Dorypteryx pallida Aaron.

Found about old books and desks, from May to October. This
is our only jumping species.

Suborder PLECOPTERA.
Family PERLID^E.
Pteronarcys regalis Newman.

One male', 2d May, Falls Church, Va. ; another from Plum-
mer's Island, Md. , 2oth April.
Acroneuria arenosa Pictet.
A. arida Hagen.

One of our most common species, found in June and July.

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Perla fumosa Banks.

One pair, Washington, in July at light.
Perla xanthenes Newman.

Washington, at light, 4th July.
Perla postica Walker.

Falls Church, Va., several specimens collected on the 29th of
April.
Perla americana Banks.

Falls Church, Va., several specimens collected in June ; also
taken at Plummer's Island, Md., in May.
Perla annulipes Hagen.

Described from Washington, but I have not taken it here.
Perla tristis Hagen.

Recorded from Washington by Hagen ; I have not seen it
from here.
Pseudoperla occipitalis Pictet.

Very common. I have taken it at light, and by sweeping the
vegetation near streams, in June and July.
Perlinella placida Hagen.

Very commonly taken by sweeping and at light, from June
until August.
Chloroperla transmarina Newman.

Two from Plummer's Island, Md., 22d April (Currie).
Isopteryx cydippe Newman.

Commonly collected in June and July by sweeping near
streams.
Capnia pygmaea Burmeister.

Common along the Potomac river in February and March.
Capnia necydaloides Pictet.

Found with the preceding species.
Tseniopteryx fasciata Burmeister.

Along the Potomac from February to April.
Tseniopteryx frigida Hagen.

Several specimens from Plummer's Island, Md., 24th Febru
ary (Currie).
Tseniopteryx maura Pictet.

Recorded by Hagen, but not seen here by the writer..
Nemoura venosa Banks.

A few specimens at light, Washington, D. C., and Falls
Church, Va., in June.

206 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Nemoura completa Walker.

Tcznioptcryx similis Hagen.

Hagen's type was from Washington, in May, but I have not
seen the species here.

Leuctra tenuis Pictet.

Recorded by Hagen. There are apparently two species here,
but whether either is Pictet's is not yet certain to me.

Suborder ANISOPTERA.
Family EPHEMERID^E.

Polymitarcys alba Say.

Sometimes to be found in great numbers at lights all through
the city, in July and August.

Hexagenia bilineata Say.

Our most common mayfly, especially abundant in the latter
part of June and early in July, but found all through the summer.

Hexagenia limbata Pictet.

Much less common than the preceding species. Found in July.
Leptophlebia cupida Say.

Common early in Spring from March to May.
Ephemerella excrucians Walsh.

Found in Washington at light.
Habrophlebia americana Banks,

One specimen from Washington, 2ist July.
Siphlurus aridus Say.

One from Falls Church, Va., roth August.
Bsetis vicina Hagen.

Plummer's Island, Md., August.
Bsetis unicolor Hagen.

Described from Washington. I have not seen it from here,
but from New York.
Cleon mendax Walsh.

'Quite abundant in spring and fall.
Cleon sp.

Specimens of a larger species from Washington, collected in
October.

Callibsetis fluctuans Walsh.

Washington, D. C,, and Falls Church, Va., July.

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Caenis hilaris Say .

Abundant throughout the summer along the Potomac and at
Falls Church, Va.
Caenis arnica Hagen.

Falls Church, Va., Sth August. This is a smaller species than
C. hilaris.
Heptagenia vicaria Walker.

A pair from Falls Church, Va., collected in May.
Heptagenia verticis Say.

A subimago from Washington, taken at light.
Heptagenia terminata Walsh.

Not as common as the preceding species.
Heptagenia pulchella Walsh.

Quite abundant ; High Island and Plummer's Island, Potomac
river.
Heptagenia canadensis Walker.

H. maculipennis Walsh.

Falls Church, Va., nth June; Plummer's Island, Md., July
and August.
Heptagenia flaveola Pictet.

This is our common species of the genus. It is close to H.
interpunctata Say, but is smaller and lacks the dark dorsal ab
dominal stripe.
Heptagenia simplex Walsh.

Three specimens from Plummer's Island, Md., 29th August.

Order NEUROPTERA.

Suborder MEGALOPTERA.
Family SIALID^.
Sialis infumata Newman.

From the loth of May on through June, near small streams.
Chauliodes fasciatus Walker.

Along the Potomac in August.
Chauliodes serricornis Say.

Upper part of the Potomac river; High Island and Plummer's
Island, Md. , July; Glencarlyn, Va., iSth June.
Chauliodes pectinicornis Linne.

One from Washington, at light.
Chauliodes rastricornis Rambur.

Washington, at light, July.

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Corydalis cornutus Linne.

Moderately common along the Potomac, in July and August.

Suborder STEGOPTERA.
Family CHRYSOPIDyE.

Allochrysa virginica Fitch.

From oak trees near the National Zoological Park, in July.
Chrysopa oculata Say.

Very common. The first adult is to be seen in the latter part
of May, usually in tall grass or shrubbery, less commonly on
trees.
Chrysopa chlorophana Burmeister.

From Hyattsville, Md. This species is of more northern oc
currence.
Chrysopa ypsilon Fitch.

Hagen records a specimen from Washington. I have not seen
it south of New Jersey.
Chrysopa albicornis Fitch.

A few from Falls Church, Va.
Chrysopa nigricornis Burmeister.

Moderately common about the District. It comes to light.
Chrysopa columbiana Banks.

One specimen, the type, from Washington.
Chrysopa lineaticornis Fitch.

Not common. It has been taken at Bay Ridge, Md., in July,
and at Plummer's Island, Md.
Chrysopa rufilabris Burmeister.

Very common in meadows and shrubbery, and on trees, from
June till October.
Chrysopa interrupta Schneider.

A few from trees, Washington, D. C., July.
Chrysopa quadripunctata Burmeister.

Fairly common, usually about oak trees, from June till Octo
ber.
Chrysopa medialis Banks.

A few specimens, the types, from High Island, Md., col
lected in September.
Chrysopa harrisii Fitch.

Rather common in pine trees, from July to September,

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Meleoma signoretti Fitch.

High Island and Plummer's Island, Md., in August and Sep
tember.

Family HEMEROBIID /E.

Polystoechotes punctatus Fabricius.

Not common. Taken at light at Washington, in August.
Lomamyia flavicornis Walker.

One specimen, Falls Church, Va., ist July.
Sisyra vicaria Walker.

Several specimens, taken along the canal near High Island,
Md., in June.

Climacia areolaris Hagen.

One from Plummer's Island, Md., collected in August.
Micromus posticus Walker.

Very common from July to September in shrubbery, and larvae
on trees.

Micromus angustus Hagen.

Falls Church, Va., June, on ground among grass tufts.
Sympherobius amiculus Fitch.

Washington, D. C., Falls Church, Va., and Plummer's Island,
Md., in June and July. Not very common.
Boriomyia fidelis Banks.

Taken near Glencarlyn, Va., 230! June, in pine woods.
Boriomyia speciosus Banks.

The type is from Plummer's Island, Md., 9th Sept.
Hemerobius humuli Linn.

H. castanece Fitch.

Abundant from May till August.
Hemerobius stigmaterus Fitch.

Moderately common, in early spring and again in fall.

Family CONIOPTERYGIDyE.
Coniopteryx vicina Hagen.

Common in May, June and July, on trees and shrubs.
Aleuronia westwoodi Fitch.

Moderately common in early summer, on trees.

Family MYRMELEONID^.
Dendroleon obsoletus Say.

Washington, D. C., and Plummer's Island, Md., at light, from
July to September.

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Brachynemurus abdominalis.

Falls Church, Va., in old meadow, in July.

Myrmeleon immaculatus De Geer.

Washington, D. C., at light, June; Plummer's Island, Md.,
September.

Family ASCALAPHID^E.

Ululodes quadripunctata Burmeister.

Washington, D. C., at light; a single specimen collected in

Jiy.

Suborder MECAPTERA.
Family PANORPID^.

Bittacus punctiger Westwood.

Washington, D. C., taken near Rock Creek, from June to Au
gust, by sweeping.

Bittacus occidentis Walker.

In dry meadow, Falls Church, Va., and Plummer's Island,
Md., in August; also at light, Travilah, Md., July (Pratt).

Bittacus stigmaterus Say.

Apparently not common. Taken on High Island, Potomac
river, 141!! July.
Bittacus pilicornis Westwood.

Recorded by Hine from the District of Columbia.
Bittacus strigosus Hagen.

Along the Potomac valley in June and July ; moderately com
mon.

Panorpa venosa Westwood.

Two from near Somerset Heights, Washington, D. C., 2^th
August.

Panorpa confusa Westwood.

Distributed throughout the region, but not common any
where ; June to September.

Panorpa rufescens Rambur.

Recorded by Hagen. It is very close to the preceding species.
Boreus brumalis Fitch.

Recorded by Hagen from Washington, and by Matthis * from
the Rock Creek valley, D. C. I have not seen it from here.

*Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., iv, No. 4, p. 364, 1901.

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Merope tuber Newman.

National Zoological Park (Schwarz) ; Plummer's Island, Md.
(Schwarz, Busck, Banks, and Currie) ; Mt. Vernon, Va.
(Cook); Falls Church, Va. (Banks); and Langdon, D. C.
(Busck) ; July to September.

Order TRIOHOPTERA.
Family PHRYGANEID./E.
Phryganea interrupta Say.

Several have been taken on the Capitol steps at light, late in
the summer.
Phryganea vestita Walker.

One specimen in National Museum from Washington, May
(L. O. Howard).
Neuronia postica Walker.

From College Park, Md. (Sherman), and Lakeland, Md.,
August (Pratt).
Neuronia semifasciata Say.

Plummer's Island, Md., 28th August (Schwarz and Barber).

Family LIMNEPHILID^E.
Goniotaulius submonilifer Walker.

Fairly common in May and June.
Stenophylax scabripennis Rambur.

One specimen from Falls Church, Va., iSth October; one
from Ashgrove, Va., October (Sherman), and one from Plum
mer's Island, Md., 8th September (Barber).
Stenophylax punctatissimus Walker.

Several from Lakeland, Md., September (Pratt).
Platyphylax difficilis Walker.

Specimens from Falls Church, Va., in September and October.
Platyphylax subfasciata Say.

Specimens from High Island, Md., zSth September.
Neophylax concinnus McLachlan.

One from Plummer's Island, Md., 24th September (Barber
and Schwarz).

Family RHYACOPHILID^.
Chimarrha aterrima Hagen.

Abundant all through the summer. I have a smaller, shorter-
winged form from Hyattsville, Md., 4th July.
Chimarrha socia Hagen.

Three from Washington, taken at electric light.

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Family SERICOSTOMATID^.
Helicopsyche annulicornis, n. sp.

Basal joint of antennae nearly black, beyond pale, annulate with brown,
darker toward tip; legs pale, coxae and femora mostly brown. Wings
dusky, with golden and black hair; fringe blackish; abdomen brown,
blnck at tips. Wings rather elongate, venation as typical of genus, the
reinlet from forking of the median running obliquely backward to cubitus.
Spurs, 1-2-4. Length 6.5 mm.

Plummer's Island, Md., 28th August.

Differs from H. borealis in annulate antennae, longer wings,
and larger size.
Helicopsyche borealis Hagen.

Several from Falls Church and Glencarlyn, Va., and Plum
mer's Island, Md., July to September.
Lepidostoma togatum Hagen.

Common along the Potomac river from July to September.
Notidobia americana Banks.

One from Falls Church, Va., June.
Brachycentrus incanus Hagen.

Along the Potomac river in early spring March and April.

Family LEPTOCERID^.
Molanna cinerea Hagen.

Several specimens from Plummer's Island, Md., i6th and
20th May (Currie).
Mystacides punctata Banks.

Several from Washington, D. C.,also Plummer's Island, Md.,
28th August.
Leptocerus mentiens Walker.

Common along the Potomac river, in June and July.
Leptocerus maculatus Banks.

Washington, D. C., at light.
Leptocerus transversus Hagen.

Common in May, June and July.
Leptocerus flavus, n. sp.

Palpi yellow, more brownish toward apex ; head clothed with white hair ;
basal joint of antennae yellowish, be\ond black, the basal part of segments
snow-white, except those near tip; thorax yellowish, with white hair.
Abdomen in female green, in male yellowish; fore wings uniformly
clothed with yellow hair, fringe yellow, all veins pale yellowish; hind
wings nearly hyaline, with pale gray fringe; legs pale yellowish.
Length c ^ 7 mm., 9 6 rn-

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Specimens from Washington, D. C. , and Falls Church, Va.,
at lights.

Readily known by small size and uniformly yellow wings.
Leptocella exquisita Walker.

Common from June to August. This species is variable in size.
Leptocella uwarowii Kolenati.

Not as common as the preceding.
Leptocella albida Walker.

Less common than others, July.
Trisenodes ignita Walker.

Very abundant all summer.
CEcetina avara Banks.

Quite common along the Potomac river, in June and Sep
tember.
GEcetina parvula Banks.

Moderately common, at light, Washington, D. C., and Falls
Church, Va., July.
CEcetina guttata Banks.

Three specimens from Plummer's Island, Md., July ; three
in National collection, 4th and lyth July, and 25th August.
CEcetina incerta Walker.

Very abundant, June to September.
CEcetina fumosa Banks.

Quite common, June to August, Washington, D. C., High
Island and Plummer's Island, Md.
CEcetina pavida Hagen.

Several specimens from Plummer's Island, Md., August.
CEcetina flaveolata Hagen.

A few from Falls Church, Va., at light, July and August.
Described from Washington.

Family HYDROPSY
Macronema zebratum Hagen.

Common along the Potomac, in July and August.
Macronema transversa^Walker.

From Cabin John Bridge, Md., 3oth May.
Polycentropus robusta Walker.

Washington, D. C., at light, June and July.
Polycentropus confusus Hagen.

Along the Potomac river, May to September.

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Polycentropus vestitus Hagen.

Common in June and July.
Polycentropus lucidus Hagen.

Along the Potomac river, from June to September.
Hydropsyche scalaris Hagen.

Several from Washington, D. C., Falls Church, Va., and
Plummer's Island, Md., all taken during July.
Hydropsyche alternans Walker.

Very abundant from July to September.
Hydropsyche speciosa, n. sp.

Head brown; antennae pale yellow; thorax almost black; abdomen
dark yellow-brown ; legs pale yellowish. Wings dark brown, with several
large white patches as follows: One at base not reaching costal margin,
a nearly complete oblique band befoi'e middle, two triangular spots be
yond middle, one on front, the other on hind margin, their apices nearly
touching, a spot on costa beyond the pterostigma, and a few small spots
along apical margin; hind wings blackish. Length 5 mm.

Many specimens from Plummer's Island, Md., 28th August.
Hydropsyche phalerata Hagen.

Quite common from June to September.
Hydropsyche sordida Hagen.

Several from Falls Church, Va., July.
Hydropsyche analis Banks.

From Falls Church, Va., and Plummer's Island, Md., July
and August.
Philopotamus sp.

One female from Glencarlyn, Va., I2th August. It has very
short wings, and appears to be new.

Cyrnus pallidus, n. sp.

Pale yellowish throughout; wings sparsely clothed with yellow and
gray hair, fringe gray; antennae paler than body, plainly crenate within
for entire length; vertex swollen ; mesothorax with a central depression
containing two approximate tubercles. Wings of usual shape and vena
tion (one specimen lacks a fork to upper branch of thyridium [fork 3]);
the forks 3 and 4 are shorter than in C. flavidus, and the wing a little
more slender; this, membrane shows only one pale spot, that on the fork
of thyridium, near middle of wing. Legs slender, spurs 3-4-4- Length
5 mm.

Specimens from Washington, D. C., and High Island, Md.,
iyth June; also Plummer's Island, Md., i9th August (Barber).
This is the first record of this genus in our country.

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Family HYDROPTILHX/E.

Protoptila, n. gen.

Spurs 0-4-4. Last joint of maxillary palpus (Plate II, Fig. 13) simple.
Fore wings rather slender and nearly acute at tip, without erect hair, ex
cept a few on base, fringe moderately long; hind wing slender, costal
margin before middle strongly excised, fringe very broad behind. Ocelli
distinct; antennae moderately long, not very heavy; middle and hind
tibise heavily fringed behind.

Type: I3crcea? maculata Hagen.

I place this genus in the Hydroptilidse although there are few
erect hairs and there are four spurs on middle * tibiae ; yet the
structure of the hind wing and the 'palpi place it there without
doubt.
Protoptila maculata Hagen.

Clymene cegerifasciella Chambers.

This pretty species is not uncommon along the Potomac region
in late summer. Chambers described it as a Tineid moth. 1
have seen Hagen's type at Cambridge.
Allotrichia signata, n. sp.

Antennae yellowish; head and thorax with yellowish hairs, ocelli pres
ent: fore wings black, with yellow spots as follows: a large oblong one
at pterostigma, four rather large ones at subequal distances apart on the
hind margin, and several small dots near the apex; fringe black, except
at the pale spots where it is of the same color ; hind wings gray, with gray
fringe, except the apical part of the costal which is black; on the hind
margin the fringe is but little longer than width of wing; legs yellow,
spurs 0-3-4, hind and middle tibiae fringed, but the fringe not very long.
The fore wings have a moderately sharp tip; the hind wings are long and
narrow, with an elongate concavity along costal margin beyond middle
of the wing. Length 4 mm.

One specimen from Falls Church, Va., 29th June.

Allotrichia maculata Banks.

From Falls Church, and Glencarlyn, V.a., 9th September, and
Washington, D. C., 25th August.
Orthotrichia pallida, n. sp.

Antennae white, in the male rather long and heavy; head white above ;
thorax with white hair; fore wings with pale yellowish hair, the posterior
fringe white, the anterior fringe whitish, except a black patch at ptero-
stigmatic region ; slightly beyond middle of wing, at equal distances from
each margin, is a black spot, and another, less distinct, on posterior mar
gin, basad