The Canadian entomologist
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WAR SISIRII SSS SIRO) Ne eM 6 5) See eens Ee oe WoosTER, OHIO. WHE RAKGS mip neal Gr aril Repieie are ee yact. 3, Succ aiareteue oe ar Boston, Mass. VES IMIREET paul ergen earn Pesce teritte RNC kis seus a etree ae ae POL REAR TS UNDE WiiGiKGEAMe sPIR@E se sa: ues. ie Me cis tye Iowa City, Lowa. WVU INES Se) ANU 3) B3 53 20S) TR A ee .. MONTREAL. NG) OTD OUR Ed eG eveew oe wise ccleticn Shi sicic'wls ce clave UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. J. ALSTON MOFFAT. LIBRARIAN AND CURATOR, ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. eo he anadiay —srtomologist. Viot. XeXXCEL. LONDON, JANUARY, tgotr. No. 1 LIFE-HISTORY OF XYLINA BETHUNEI, G. & R. BY HENRY H. LYMAN, MONTREAL. On the evening of 17th of April, 1898, a 2 of this species entered my room, and was bottled and not looked at again until the morning of the 19th, when it was found that the cyanide in the bottle was exhausted and that the moth was still alive and had laid a considerable number of eggs. The eggs were distributed through the cotton wool at the bottom of the bottle, and this had to be carefully pulled to pieces thread by thread to secure the eggs. The following description was taken : Egg.—Somewhat of gumdrop shape, .60 mm. in diameter, wider than high. Many low ribs rising from the base, the whole surface pitted with rather large depressions having the appearance near the apex of short transverse striz. Colour when laid, creamy with a tinge of green, soon turning whitish and then soon showing a mottling of brownish red. Later they turned darker, but the mottling remained; hatching 1st and 2nd May. Egg period about 14 days. Young larva.—Stage I: Length, at rest, 1.42 mm.;in motion, 1.70 mm. Head large, considerably exceeding the znd segment, lower part projecting forward. Colour creamy white, but with a darker interior shade beginning at the 3rd segment and extending about two-thirds to anal end, but darker and more marked on the anterior segments. Setze long, concolorous, as are also the feet and claspers. The larve were offered wild cherry, red-oak bud, hawthorn, silver maple, white birch, willow, plantain, ash, apple. They ate several of the foods offered, but preferred cherry, maple or apple ; hawthorn, birch and plantain were not touched. By the 5th May the general colour was a pale green, the interior shade being dark green, though some did not show the darker interior shade, being uniformly pale green. Passing rst moult 7th May; described 9th May. pu THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. After 1st moult.—Stage I]: Length 6 mm. _ Head pale greenish with a few white hairs, ocelli black. Body pale green, dark green interiorly, with a whitish subdorsal line, and a similar subspiracular line. Warts whitish. By the 12th some had passed 2nd moult. After 2nd moult.—Stage III: Length 8.60-9.40 mm. Head pale horn colour. Body green, darker, especially interiorly, above, yellowish green below. ‘There is now a very broken dorsal line of short white dashes. The warts are conspicuous, being of a shiny white, like glazed china. Sete short and whitish; spiracles very inconspicuous. These larve are sometimes restless, but do not tend to stray from the food-plant. They constantly spin threads, so that when picked up with a camel’s-hair pencil they are sometimes pulled back by the thread. While under observation one began to clear away the frass from the maple leaf it was on, picking the pieces up with its jaws and throwing them aside. One mass so thrown consisted of six or more pellets stuck together. By the 15th nearly all had passed the 3rd moult. After 3rd moult.—Stage IV: Length, at rest, 12 mm.;in motion, 14.5 mm. Very evenly cylindrical, but with a slight fullness about the 12th segment. Head very pale green with a few whitish hairs, mouth- parts whitish, ocelli rather inconspicuous. Body green with yellowish shades, especially at the segmental folds. Warts as before. The white lines are the same as before, but the subspiracular fold is strongly marked and is yellowish white. There is an indication by white dots of another line between the subspiracular fold and sub- dorsal stripe. ‘The spiracles are small and very inconspicuous. Feet and claspers pale greenish. Passing 4th moult 17th May. After 4th moult.—Stage V: Length, at rest, 15.6 mm. Head, 2nd and 13th segments, light green, rest of body yellowish green. Warts and stripes as before, white. Setee pale yellowish, subspiracular fold yellow- ish white, feet and claspers light green. On 22nd nine out of fourteen in one jar were found to have passed the 5th moult, and the appearance of the larva is now entirely changed. After 5th moult.—Stage VI: Length, at rest, 24 mm.; in motion, 28 mm. Head pale greenish horn colour mottled with blackish green. Body Oo THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. greenish gray, mottled on part above the subspiracular fold with velvety black. Top of the second segment almost solidly black, with a thin pale horn colour dorsal line, the warts very small and similar in colour to dorsal line. This black patch is bordered on the sides by a whitish line, and below is a clear greenish wedge-shape space, wider anteriorly; below this it is mottled in black to the subspiracular band. Dorsal stripe from 3rd segment to 13th yellow, shaded with orange. Warts distinct, white like glazed porcelain. Sete rather weak, pale in colour. On 8th to 11th segments there are two small white dots like warts in advance of wart 1, at about same distance from i. as ii. is. These spots are a little further from the dorsal line than i., but not quite as far as ii. Subdorsal stripe broken up into a line of spots, subspiracular fold broad, cream colour; just above this a black band of varying width, widest at the spiracles, which show upon it as white ovals; between this and the subdorsal stripe there is a series of white dots. The black mottling tends to be grouped about the warts and other white dots. The top of the 12th segment is slightly swollen. Below the sub- spiracular fold the body is pale green with only a powdering of black atoms about the warts v. and vi. Feet and claspers pale green. On 23rd May I noticed that there were only 13 larve in the jar where there had been 14, and it is possible that one had been eaten, though they had never been short of food. In the other jar cannibalism, which is a characteristic of this group, had evidently been practised, as evidenced by the remaining anal extremity of a larva which had apparently been devoured when in process of moulting. I therefore separated them into four jars so that they should have more room. One larva was of a much grayer tone than the average, being wanting in the greenish shade. The larve were mature about the end of May, the colour as usual changing just before the pupation, the greenish shade of the upper area giving place to a pinkish tinge. The length of the mature larva is 31-32 mm. The larva enters the ground and makes a close cocoon of grayish silk and pellets of earth. The pupa is of the usual noctuid type. The moths began to appear about the 29th July, and continued to emerge for a week or ten days. This is very much earlier than they would have emerged had they been subjected to the vicissitudes of their natural life out of doors. 4 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. NEW JASSIDAZ FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN AND PACIFIC REGION. BY FE. D. BALL, FORT COLLINS, COLO. The following species, with a few exceptions, were taken by Mr. E. P. Van Duzee and the author while on a very interesting and success- ful trip through southern and western Colorado during the latter part of July, 1900. ‘These species are all strictly south-western in distribution as far as known, and most of them were found feeding on one or another of the peculiar plants of that region. While collecting in the valley of the Grand River, a number of species of Homoptera were taken, hitherto only known from the Californian region, and it is very probable that in turn several of these species, which were taken along with them, will, eventually, be found in California. HECALUS BRACTEATUS, N. sp. Resembling drunneus, the elytra shorter in the female, longer in the male. Head longer and thinner. Female, pale yellow. Male, milk- white with fuscous lines. Length, 9 7mm., ¢ 5 mm. Width, ¢ 1.5 mm., ¢ 1.25 mm. Female.—Vertex long, with a foliaceous margin, disc transversely convex, the lateral margins but slightly narrowed for half the length, then forming a parabolic curve. Length and width in front of eyes about equal,two and one-fourth times the lengthof the pronotum. Elytra brachyp- terous, covering the first abdominal segment, as long as the vertex, their apices rounding. Venation reduced, a broad margin outside of the first section, which is once forked, no apical and rarely more than one ante- apical cell present. Maie.—Vertex roundingly triangular, its basal width one-third greater than its length, slightly longer than pronotum, margin not foli- aceous. Elytra long and narrow, much longer than abdomen, venation distinct, somewhat irregular, usually the second cross nervure present, forming three anteapical cells, of which the second is much the longer. Colour: female pale yellow or straw colour, the elytra with a few fuscous dots next the nervures ; abdomen with a pair of olive stripes on each side, these stripes margined with dotted fuscous lines, a similar median line. Sometimes the olive stripes disappear, leaving the abdo- men with nine dotted fuscous lines. Male milky white, sometimes with five olive stripes, dotted with fuscous, on vertex and pronotum. Elytra THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. a) with the milk-white nervures margined with fuscous dots. Upper half of the face fuscous. Genitalia : ultimate ventral segment of the female as long as the penultimate, the posterior margin roundingly emarginate, with a broad blunt tooth. Male, valve triangular, plates triangular, the margins slightly concave, fringed with stcut spines ; plates about three times the length of the valve. Described from numerous specimens from Rocky Ford, Colo. This species is apparently intermediate in structure between this genus and Parabolocratus. The females are all brachypterous and have the elon- gate head of a Heca/us, while the males are long-winged and have the short vertex of Parabolocratus. ATHYSANUS SYMPHORICARPS, DN. Sp. Form and size of zmstabi/is, lighter coloured, resembling s¢vzatudus, but larger and lighter testaceous. Length, 4.5 mm.; width, 1 mm. Vertex twice wider than long, half longer at apex than against eye, rounding to the broad almost paraliel margined front, clypeus much narrower than apex of front, parallel margined. Elytra stout, longer than body as in znstabilis, the central anteapical cell long, narrowed in the middle, more than half its length beyond the apex of clavus. Colour: vertex and face yellowish testaceous, lines on front and irrorations on vertex fusco-testaceous. Pronotum and scutellum paler, with a slightly olive tinge. Elytra pale brownish or olive testaceous, subhyaline, the nervures light. Legs and all below pale orange testaceous. Genitalia : ultimate ventral segment of the female little longer than the penultimate, the lateral margins narrowing, the lateral angles a little produced, triangular, between these the posterior margin is slightly rounding, shining black. One specimen has an acutely angular notch either side the middle, one-third the distance to the margin, leaving a ébroad central tooth ; one has only one notch; and two, probably not having copulated, have none. Described from four females from Ridgeway, Colo. ATHYSANUS VARUS, 0. Sp. Form and colour of adpinus and extrusus, but with a narrower body and longer elytra. Male darker, resembling A/utonius female. Length, 9 5mm., ¢ 4.25mm. Width, 2? 1.5 mm., f a little over 1 mm. \) THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. Vertex roundingly triangular, twice wider than long, two-thirds the length of the pronotum, disc convex, rounding to front, apex bluntly conical ; front broad and flat, width between antenne a little less than three-fourth its length. Elytra long, the outer margins almost parallel, their apices very broadly rounding. Venation strong, often accessory cross nervures along clavus and between sectors of corium: central ante- apical cell very long, the posterior end angularly enlarged. Colour: ground colour a dirty straw-yellow ; vertex with a trans- verse band just back of the ocelli, the ends of which do not reach the eye, but curve forward to the front ; another interrupted band half way between this and the posterior margin and two dashes curving away from the apex and paralleling the other bands, black. Elytra with the nervures white, the cells mostly filled with dark fuscous, omitting a transverse, hyaline, band across the juncture of apical and anteapical cells, a large milk-white patch on the cross nervures between the sectors, a smaller one at the apex of each claval nervure and sometimes another next to the claval suture. Face, dirty yellow arcs on front, especially on upper half; sutures, spots around the antennal sockets and the disc of the clypeus, fuscous. Male much darker than female, lower part of face and below black. Genitalia : ultimate ventral segment of the female one-half longer than penultimate, posterior margin nearly truncate, the median third roundingly produced ; usually the segment is curved over the ovipositor so that it appears emarginate, with a quite pronounced median lobe; male valve less than half as long as its breadth at base, the apex rounding; plates no wider than the valve, slightly concavely triangular, the apex acute, two and one-half times the length of the valve, clothed with stout white spines. Described from ten females and one male from Fort Collins, Colo. Readily distinguished from any other American species by the genitalia and venation. ‘There is a group of about six European species that possess the same milk-white elytral markings, of which a@istinguendus and Schenkii are similar in form, but none of them in venation and genital characters. THAMNOTETTIX GRAECULA, N., sp. Form of favocapitata nearly, but stouter; as large as Cogui/letti, which it somewhat resembles in colour. Length, 2? 5.5 mm., ¢ 5 mm, fod THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. ( Vertex roundingly angular, the apex conical, scarcely two-thirds as long as its breadth at base, half longer than against eye; disc convex, rounding to the front except at apex; front broad, rather flat; clypeus broadest just before the rounding apex. Pronotum a little over half longer than vertex; elytra rather stout. Venation peculiar, resembling Jonguda, except that the outer anteapical cell is pointed and petiolate anteriorly and the outer fork of first sector is very faint. Male smaller and with a blunter vertex. Colour: pale yellowish olive ; the female has two large spots within the basal angle and two smaller ones on the disc of the scutellum and the cross nervures between the sectors brown. Elytra with slight reddish cast. The males have no marking on scutellum, the elytra are distinctly embrowned, especially along the claval and apical areas. In both sexes there are a number of oval subhyaline areas. In the males there are three approximate pairs along the sutural margin. Genitalia : ultimate ventral segment of female half longer than penultimate, the lateral angle rounding, the posterior margin triangularly emarginate from the lateral angles half way to the base ; from the bottom arises a strap-shaped tooth equalling the lateral angles ; male valve broadly evenly rounding. The plates, concavely, triangularly acuminate, about twice the length of the valve. Described from one female and three males from Rifle, Durango and Colorado Springs, Colo. SCAPHOIDEUS BLANDUS, DN. sp. Form and general appearance of jucundus, smaller and paler, lacking the reddish tinge of that species. Costal margin of elytra with numerous regular cells. Length, 5 mm.; width, r.ro mm. Vertex right-angled back to the eyes, which round off, not quite as long as its basal width, disc flat, margins straight, vertex and face foyming an acute angle; front, margins straight, clypeus very slightly broadened below. Pronotum as long as vertex, more than half of its length within the curve of the vertex. Elytra, claval veins but slightly curved apically, usually a cross nervure from outer one to suture and often several irregular ones between the veins, outer anteapical cell usually with one cross nervure to the costa, sometimes several, costal margin with numerous, indistinct, almost equidistant nervures which are perpen- dicular to the margin. S THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, Colour: almost uniform dull yellow, the anterior margin of vertex pale, faintly margined with brown. Elytra with oval light spots, which are milky on clavus and subhyaline white on corium; the three pairs along the sutural margin are very regular. Below pale yellow. Genitalia: ultimate ventral segment of female twice wider than long, posterior margin rounding, variably trisinuate either side of a narrow median incision; the inner pair of lobes usually largest, lateral angles rounding, disc with a dark spot, pygofers short, strongly inflated in the middle. Male valve small, bluntly triangular; plates rather broad, the basal half rounding, apical half triangularly narrowing to the blunt tips, two and one-half times longer than valve, the flat lateral margins separated from the convex disc by a dark line. Described from numerous specimens from Rifle, Ridgway, Dolores and Durango, Colo. The quadrangular cells along the costa will readily separate this from any described form. SCAPHOIDEUS FUMIDUS, Nn. sp. Resembling é/andus in form and size. Colour rich testaceous brown, the margins of vertex and pronotum and apex of elytra white. Length, 5 mm.; width, 1.5 mm. Vertex right-angled, slightly shorter than its basal width, lateral margins slightly rounding, disc flat or slightly transversely depressed on the middle ; outline of face as seen from the side straight, front rapidly widening above antennal pits, regularly narrowing below ; clypeus short, constricted in the middle, gene broadly margining the lore below. Pronotum slightly longer than vertex. Elytra rather long and narrow behind ; outer claval vein nearly straight, venation obscured by the deep colour, except in the apical cells, nodal vein arising from beyond the middle of the outer anteapical cell. Colour: rich testaceous brown, vertex lighter, the lateral margins of vertex and pronotum and the costal margin of elytra at base creamy white, the apex of corium from just beyond the clavus and including all the apical cells and the apices of the two outer anteapical cells, subhya- line white. Sometimes a few oval white spots in the testaceous portion of elytra. Face and below pale creamy yellow. Genitalia: ultimate ventral segment of female with a_ broad, triangular, median notch, either side of which there is a broad rounding lobe which slopes away to a small triangular lobe next the lateral angle ; Cc THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. male valve small, not as long as the ultimate segment, roundingly triangular ; plates narrow, long, triangular, their apices acute. Described from ten specimens from Rifle, Dolores and Durango, Colo. The white margins anteriorly and the sharply defined tip to the elytra against the rich ground colour render this an easily recognized species. The general shape and colour suggest the genus //atymetopius, but the shorter vertex and the face characters place it with Scaphoideus. Such species as this weaken generic characters and at the same time help us in that they show affinities. PHLEPSIUS VANDUZEI, N. sp. Form and general appearance of cinereus, but much larger ; stouter built than even wedu/osus; grayish cinereous, with a trilobate commissural line. Length, 8 mm. ; width, 2.75 mm. Vertex very bluntly conical, one-fourth longer on middle than against eye, three-fifths the length of the pronotum, no visible line between it and front ; front not quite as long as its basal width, the apex one-third the width at base ; clypeus long, wedge-shaped, broadest below ; pronotum two and one-third times wider than long. Elytra broad, longer than the body, compressed before the flaring apex; claval veins sometimes tied across. Colour: dirty white, sometimes a pale yellow wash on vertex and pronotum. Vertex with a distinct round black spot on the middle of either side at the base, a few irregular dark vermiculations anteriorly, omitting a broad median line which extends down the front ; numerous short arcs on front, a spot on clypeus, a pair on lore, another pair just under eyes, fuscous. Pronotum and scutellum with very faint markings, elytral veins yellow and fuscous ; between them the membrane is very finely, sparsely, and somewhat irregularly vermiculate, omitting a broad commissural line, which is divided into three lobes by the apices of the clayal nerves. The outer apical and two costal veins often very much infuscated, the spaces between clear. Genitalia: ultimate ventral segment of the female appearing only as a narrow strip along the pleura on either side ; in its place is a thin mem- brane shaped almost like the segment in afertus, with its rectangular median excavation, and showing beyond its posterior margin the rounded apices of the plates, near the middle line, and the rounding lobes of a secou’ membrane near the lateral angles ; male valve triangular, the apex bluntly roundingly produoed ; plates broad at base, roundingly triangular, 10 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. their apices produced, compressed, slightly divergent; disc, convex, inflated, a few appressed hairs along the margin; plates equalling the pygofers, nearly five times the length of the valve. Described from a pair taken at Rifle, Colo., by Mr. E. P. Van Duzee, and two females taken at Grand Junction the next day by the author. This large species is strikingly distinct in form, colour and genitalia, and it gives me great pleasure to name it after the man who has in the past so carefully worked out this genus for us, and whose energy and ‘* Kansas umbrella” taken together did so much to make this mountain trip both pleasurable and profitable to the author. PHLEPSIUS EXTREMUS, N. Sp. Very smali, oval, depressed, with a flat, thick margined vertex ; resembling decorus and arco/atus in general appearance, but much smaller. Smaller than ovatus, head as wide as the pronotum. Length, ? 4.5 mm., ¢ 4 mm.; width, 1.5 mm. Vertex flat, over three-fourths the length of the pronotum, over half longer on middle than at eye, not quite twice wider’ than long, the anterior margin thick, angle with front acute; front broad, nearly flat, longer than wide. Elytra short, oval, claval veins distinct. Colour: milky white, heavily irrorate with dark fuscous so that the general colour is dark without the reddish or brownish tinge so common in this genus ; vertex very heavily irrorate, omitting a narrow margin and median line. Pronotum with Jarge olive brown spots along the anterior margin as in gecorus and areodatus. Vlytra with numerous supernumerary veins and reticulations, irrorations almost obsolete except in a few dark spots around the apex and along the costa, one or two near the apex of clavus and two very distinct ones between the sectors of the corium. Front very heavily irrorate with brownish fuscous, rest of face and legs lighter. Genitalia: ultimate ventral segment of the female twice the length of the penultimate, the lateral angles broadly, roundingly produced, between these the margin is roundingly emarginate with minute angular teeth at the bottom. In the natural position of the segment it appears to be angularly emarginate almost from the lateral margins ; male valve very small, broad and short, about one-fourth the length of the ultimate segment ; plates triangular, their apices hardly acute, a little longer than the ultimate segment. Described from two males and two females, three from Rifle and one THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 11 from Durango, Colo. One Rifle specimen from Mr. Van Duzee. This is as short as a/bsdus, but much broader, and is quite distinct structurally from any other species with a flat vertex and a broad head. PHLEPSIUS DENUDATUS, N. sp. Resembling ovatus, but broader and shorter. Even lighter coloured than a/é:dus. Head broader than thorax. Form stout. Length, 4mm.; width, 2 mm. Vertex blunt, rounding, twice wider than long; front broad, about one-fifth longer than wide, clypeus enlarged at apex. Pronotum very short, but one-third longer than vertex, lateral margin scarcely apparent. Elytra short, broad, flaring behind, giving the insect a square-set appear- ance. Venation very indistinct, somewhat variable. Colour: milky white, very sparsely spotted and irrorate with fuscous. Vertex with a pair of round spots just inside the eyes; within and back of these a pair of oblique dashes, fuscous. Pronotum witha pair of fuscous spots in a line with the inner margin of the eye on either side, sometimes a row of fuscous markings inside of these. Scutellum with a pair of triangular spots within the basal angles and a smaller pair of round ones on the disc. Elytra with three pairs of equidistant approximate spots along the suture, the middle pair the largest, and a number of spots along the costa, black. Sometimes these are absent except the large pair on the suture, and a spot opposite the anteapical cells on either costa. Veins pale yellow, indistinct. Face and all below dirty white. Genitalia: ultimate ventral segment of the female about twice as long as the penultimate, the lateral angles feebly, angularly produced, the margin between them very slightly rounding, with a small semicircular median emargination; male valve small, triangular; plates broad, triangular, as long as the ultimate segment. Described from numerous specimens from Grand Junction, Colo. (V. D. and the author.) This is another of the ‘ white” Phlepsids, which seems to be strictly south-western in distribution. In structure it resembles Vanduzet, but in size and colour it is very different. (To be continued.) I desire to acknowledge the Society’s indebtedness for a perfect pair of Plusia aeroides, from Mr. C. H. Young, Hurdman’s Bridge, through Dr. Fletcher. <A very rare species in this district. J. Atston Morrat, Curator. 1b THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. REVISION OF THE GENUS CATOCALA. BY G. H. FRENCH, CARBONDALE, ILL. On page 191, Vol.XXXII., of the CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST (1900), Dr. Grote describes a new species of Catocala from Texas, C. moderna, related to C. viduata. and push the rest one number forward, it will bring C. redicta No. 2t If we place this as No. 7 in our list of the former article, instead of No. 20. Following this with the ‘red wing” species, I would arrange this group as follows : 22. Cara, Guenee. 45. Hermia, Hy. Edw. var. Sylvia, Hy. Edw. 46. Cassandra, Hy. Edw. var. Carissima, Hulst. 47. Briseis, Edw. 23. Amatrix, Hubner. 48, Faustina, Strecker. var. Nurus, Walker. var. Zilla, Strecker. 24. Concumbens, Walker. var. Verecunda, Hulst. var. Diana, Hy. Edw. var. Allusa, Hulst. var. Hillii, Grote. 49. Irene, Behr. 25. Californica, Edw. var. Virgilia, Hy. Edw. var. Perdita, Hy. Edw. var. Volumnia, Hy. Edw. var. Cleopatra, Hy. Edw. var. Valeria, Hy. Edw. 26. Hippolyta, Hy. Edw. 50. Parta, Guenée. 27. Arizone, Grote. var. Perplexa, Strecker. 28. Luciana, Hy. Edw. var. Petulans, Hulst. Nebraske, Dodge. 51. Coccinata, Grote. var. Somnus, Dodge. Sinuosa, Grote. 29. Marmorata, Edw. var. Circe, Strecker 30. Babayaga, Strecker. 52. Aholibah, Strecker. 21. Aspasia, Strecker. 53. Violenta, Hy. Edw. var. Sara, French. 54. Verilliana, Grote. 32. Junctura, Walker. var. Ophelia, Hy. Edw. var. Walshil, Edw. var. Votiva,-Hulst. 33. Unijuga, Walker. 55- Ultronia, Hubner. 34. Beaniana, Grote. var. Celia, Hy. Edw. 35. Augusta, Hy. Edw. var. Mopsa, Hy. Edw. 36. Rosalinda, Hy. Edw. var. Adriana, Hy. Edw. oy, eras Lider, var. Herodias, Strecker. 38. Semirelicta, Grote. 56. Ilha, Cramer. 39. Meskei, Grote. var. Zoe, Behr. 40. Stretchi, Behr. var. Uxor, Guenée. 41. Portia, Hy. Edw. var. Osculata, Hulst. . Mariana, Hy. Edw. var. Francesca, Hy. Edw. . Jessica, Hy. Edw. . Grotiana, Hy. Edw. 57: Innubens, Guenée. var. Flavidalis, Grote. var. Hinda, French. var. Scintillans, Grote. ~~ THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 1: The three forms, Babayaga, Aspasta and Walshii, have been more or less confused. While at a casual glance they are very close, still I have no trouble in separating them. The first I have seen from Texas and Arizona. The fore wings have a brownish velvety appearance, the s. t. line not lighter than inside the t. p. line, the t. p. and t. a. lines dark brown with a mesian transverse and’s. t. brown shade. The mesian band of the hind wings is very narrow, only slightly expanded in the middle, abruptly bent at the posterior and not reaching the internal margin. Aspasia has the ground colour of a slight bluish tinge, the lines of a deeper brown, almost black, the mesian and s. t. shades more distinct brown, the s. t. line almost or quite concolorous with the ground colour, The mesian band of the hind wings is from a quarter to a third wider than in Babayaga, and often nearly reaches the internal margin by a shade. In Wadlshiz the ground colour of the fore wings is muchas in Asfasia, but the s. t. line is white or whitish and the shades are less brown, and the m esian band of the hind wings is nearly twice as wide as in Babayaga. I have seen Babayaga from Texas and Arizona; Aspasia from Ari- zona and Colorado ; Wadsfii from Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois ; and what may be /unctura from Arkansas. I have not before me Walker’s description, and hence do not know the locality he gives for the specimen he described. If I know the genuine /wnctura it has more or less white through the middle of the fore wings, as Grote says in one of his descrip- tions, somewhat simulating Unijuga, with the mesian band of the hind wings wider than in either of the first three forms. I have seen such specimens from the East, and one or two from Arkansas in the collection of Mr. T.C. Poling, of Quincy, Ill.,approximate the eastern forms. On the strength of this I have put Wa/shii asa variety of /umctura. {\s to the specific status of these forms I have not much to say. I have taken WadsAii here in Southern Illinois for more than 20 years, and have never found one intergrading toward what I have called /unctura, and hence have not shared Mr. Grote’s idea that it was a synonym of Junctura, and only place it as a variety for the reason given above. Nor have I seen any intergrading toward Aspasia or Labayaga. It is possible that these four forms are but one species, but it seems to me better to let them stand till by breeding they are proven to be one. In another species, Strefchiz, I found by breeding that there was considerable variation in the colour of the fore wings, but the mesian band 14 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. of the hind wings and the main markings of the fore wings were constant. Hence I separate this without hesitation from all other forms. It is commonly conceded now, | think, that Vebraske, Dodge, is a synonym of Luciana, Hy. Edw. Ihave not seen Portia, Jessica and Cassandra, and place them where they have been placed, as I have only descriptions of these species. From my own observation I should be inclined to separate Circe from Coccinata, as I take only the first form here, but the size given in the descriptions and what I have seen in other collections lead me to think that they are but forms of one species. A NEW CANADIAN TINEID. BY AUGUST BUSCK, WASHINGTON, D. C. Anacampsis lupinella, ni. sp. Antenne bronzy black with white annulations, slightly serrate, especially towards the tip. Labial palpi long, smooth, recurved; second joint somewhat thickened, with appressed scales, dark ochreous brown ; terminal joint longer than second, acicular, dark brownish, with tip black. Maxillary palpi obsolete. Zongue stout, scaled. Eyes {in the dry specimen] dark brick red. Face light brown, with dark purple reflexions. Head and thorax concolorous with fore wings, purplish black, with a satin lustre and with numerous evenly distributed bluish white scales, only visible under a lens. ‘Three varieties are before me. Fore wings in some specimens without any markings ; in others they have a distinct whitish yellow spot at the beginning of the costal cilia and another similar dorsal spot opposite. In still other specimens these spots are extended downwards and upwards relatively and meet each other, forming a narrow transverse fascia. In the two former varieties the fore wings are otherwise uniformly coloured, but in the last moth the outer half of the wing is suffused with irregular longitudinal streaks of light brown. Presumably all gradations of these types exist. Under side of fore wing uniformly bluish black, without trace of the fascia or spots. Hind wings a little broader than fore wings, termen not sinuate, black, with strong purple reflexions. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 15 Venation typical: Fore wings: 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked, the others separate. Hind wings: 8 veins, 3 and 4 connate, 6 and 7 connate. Entire body and legs purplish black. Alar expanse 14 mm. ffabitat.—High Park, Toronto, Canada. U.S. National Museum, type No. 5351. Described from three perfect female specimens, reared from Lupinus perennis and presented to the National Museum by Dr. J. Fletcher. The insect is in several respects an interesting one. It belongs to that group of Anxacampsis, Curtis | Zachyptilia, Hein., Meyrick], which in coloration suggests strongly the ¢enzonel/a group of the genus Afpro- erema, Durrant | dnacampsis, Meyrick]. It is nearest Anacampsis (Gelechia) agrimonzed/a, Clemens, and has not onlythe pattern but the leguminous food plant of Apvoerema, while hay- ing the wing form and venation of Anacampsis ; indicating in connection with the other species in this group the correlation of the two genera. Its general habitus suggests very much the genus 7r7chotaphe, Clemens, to which genus I took it to belong, before examining closely the venation. The insect is one proof of the close relationship between Anacampsis and Zrichotaphe, which in their nearest related forms only differ in the single point: veins 2 and 3 in fore wing being stalked in Trichotaphe, while they are separate in Anacampsis. Anacampsis tristrigella, Walsingham, described as Gelechia, and Anacampsis levipedella, Clemens, described as Strobisia, belong in this immediate group. The following description of the full-grown larva is by Dr. James Fletcher, Ottawa : {.arva..—Shape as inmany other Tineids, almost cylindrical ; head and 2nd segment slightly smaller than rest of body ; segments 3 to 5 very little smaller than segments 6 to 12. Length 13 mm., extended 15 mm. Width, segments 6 to 12, 2 mm. wide ; segment 2, 1.40 mm., segments 3, 4 and 5, 1.60 mm. Head 1 mm. wide, flattened and rather shorter than wide ; horizontal, slightly oblique, shining, bearing a few slender hairs ; deeply indented at apex, testaceous, darkened along posterior margin and bearing a black blotch at lower posterior angle of each cheek ; ocellar field black; length .go mm. ‘Thoracic shield large, conspicuous, con- colorous with head; width 1.30, depth .50 mm ; almost straight in front, 16 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. rounded posteriorly. One-third of lower margin edged with black and terminating with a black point at lower anterior angle ; posterior margin swollen and bearing on each side of median line 3 small black piliferous tubercles. ‘There are also 3 others on front margin. ‘Tubercles of body black, bearing slender fawn-coloured hairs, normally placed, consisting of 3 dorsal, 3 substigmatal and 1 ventral series. No. i. anterior, and sub- dorsal, half the size of 11. and iii.; No. il. posterior, and supralateral ; No. ii, median, immediately above the minute biack spiracles, slightly larger than 11.; on segments 7 to end enclosing the spiracles in their lower margins ; No. iv. twice its width from spiracles and immediately below them; No. v. below and in a line with No. i1.; the tubercles of series No. vi. form a line running from base of thoracic feet to base of anal prolegs ; the tubercles of this series are more than twice longer than high, being merely short black chitinous dashes bearing 2 or 3 bristles, except on segments 5, 6, 11, 12 and 13, where they are dots. Substigmatal series, tubercles iv., v., vi., are all of the same size as 11., larger than i., smaller than ii. Medio-ventral series of very small tubercles, one on each side of every segment, beneath. On segment 2 a large black oval tubercle (No. v.), beneath thoracic shield and anterior to the spiracle, and a tubercle at base of thoracic foot (No. vi.). On segments 3 and 4, tubercle No. i. is wanting, and as usual Nos. ii., ill. and v. are arranged in a curved line across the segments; No. v. anterior to tne other two; vi. is at base of thoracic foot, and iv. immediately above it, but higher up than vy. General colour of larva dark olive green above, paler below, dorsal vessel showing as a dark stripe. ‘Thoracic feet testaceous, blackened at tips, with a narrow chitinous black fold in front and another behind at the base of each. Prolegs concolorous with body ; claspers rusty. Cocoon, slight, among the leaves. Pupa chestnut brown, length 6.50 mm. by 1.75 mm. at widest part. Thorax and abdomen bearing a few slender bristles, which are most numerous towards the cremastral end. Cremastral hooks long and slender. Whole body covered with a very short fulvous velvety pile. These larvee were found in considerable numbers among leaves of Lupinus perennis kindly sent from High Park, Toronto, by Mr. Allan Kinghorn. Each larva made a tent by tying two or three of the leaflets loosely together. They were almost full-grown when received, and the first pupated on the roth of June. Pupal period about eight days. Eight moths were reared, all females. There was considerable variation as to markings, the transverse fascia being obliterated in some specimens, but more or less apparent in most. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 17 CYPHODERRIS MONSTROSA. BY SAMUEL H. SCUDDER, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. From time to time during the last two or three years, Dr. James Fletcher has sent me specimens of a curious Locustarian taken at Banff, Alberta, by Mr. N. B, Sanson, curator of the Government museum in the National Park at that place. The specimens were all wingless and apparently immature females, but quite unlike anything known from that region. A study of their structure showed that they belonged to the Stenopelmatini and were most nearly allied to the genus Cyphoderris. Now, Cyphoderris, though described by Uhler thirty-six years ago, is a rare creature and was on record from only two localities, Oregon and Wind River, Wyo., and only ,males had hitherto been taken. The probability that these immature and wingless females belonged with the winged males appeared to me, however, so great that in my recent catalogue of North American Orthoptera I recorded the species given in the title above as found in Alberta. Nevertheless, I had misgivings and asked Dr. Fletcher to obtain mature specimens to make sure. By his urgency, Mr. Sanson has forwarded separately this last autumn two mature females adive, the first of which Mr. Fletcher sent to me. These were in no respect different from the immature specimens except in size and in slight traces of wing-pads beneath the pronotal shield ; while in the appearance of the pronotum they differed so greatly from the male of Cyphoderris that I was as much at a loss as ever; for the male Cyphoderris has the posterior half of the pronotum so hunched and enlarged as to be almost a half broadey, posteriorly than anteriorly ; this is to give room for the coarse and bellied tegmina, which it overhangs, which are considerably longer than the pronotum, and nearly the whole of whose dorsal surface is made up of .a coarse stridulating organ. But the females sent had a pronotum of nearly uniform diameter and practically no wings. Only by securing a male from the same region or females from Oregon or Wyoming could the question really be decided whether these represented closely-related genera or the same or nearly-allied species. The matter has just been definitely settled by the receipt of a male from Banff, kindly sent by Mr. Sanson from his collection, which cannot be separated from the Oregon types in my possession. Mr. Sanson responded generously to the 18 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. demands upon him; he obtained his specimens under logs and stones where he had placed old bones as a bait. They appear to be scarce, and he has so far secured but one male. The occurrence of such a form so far north is of particular interest, for Cyphoderris belongs to a group of Anostostomata (a subdivision of Stenopelmatini) which is purely American, but mainly tropical, its northernmost allies being found in Mexico. Moreover, the Old World species and genera of Anostostomata are from the southern hemisphere exclusively. Both Mr. Fletcher and I kept our females alive for nearly a month, feeding them chiefly on apples, of which they partook rather sparingly. They were very sluggish, as seemed fit for such heavy-bodied creatures, and could scarcely jump at all, not above half an inch at a time, and were more active by night than by day. Whether eggs are laid in the autumn or spring is uncertain; the former would seem probable from their dying in captivity before November, the latter from the fact that when captured in September the thermometer stood at1g F. I gave my specimen no water, but Mr. Fletcher gave his some from a brush, which she drank, but, he writes me, “if I push the brush too assiduously she turns over on her back and bites and kicks savagely and then lies perfectly still.” After death the abdomen contracts greatly. Taking advantage of possessing a living specimen, I took notes of the colouring, etc., from which the following description of the female is taken : Head above the antenne bronze black, longitudinally marked with pallid luteous ; genz and face below the antennae pale lilac, excepting the clypeus and labrum, which are pale lemon yellow, the whole marked with blackish ; palpi pallid, feebly infuscated, especially the maxillary pair, in stripes and apical marginings, the extreme apex of apical joint pallid ; basal joint of antennz pallid, with broad basal and narrow subapical fuscous annuli, the remaining joints bronze black; eyes castaneous. 