. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS VOLUME LXIV, 1953 PHILIP P. CALVERT, EDITOR EMERITUS R. G. SCHMIEDER, EDITOR EDITORIAL STAFF J. A. G. REHN E. F. J. MARX M. E. PHILLIPS V. S. L. PATE PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, *U. S. 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To both of these men I am grateful. Class CHILOPODA Order Geophilida Mecistocephalus rubriceps Wood 1863 1 female 42 mm. in length, taken at Baquio, Mountain Prov- ince, Luzon, El. 4200^400, Nov. 3, 1945. The coxae of the anal legs have pores variable in size, the larger ones being about 20 in number, the smaller ones numerous. Order Scolopendrida Cryptops melanotypus Chamberlin 1941 1 female 15 mm. in length, taken at Mt. Maquiling, Laguna Province, Luzon, El. 1200, Nov. 25, 1945. Cryptops brunneus Chamberlin 1921 1 female 19 mm. in length, taken at Mt. Maquiling, Laguna Province, Luzon, El. 1500, Dec. 30, 1945. In the key for dis- FEB3 19TO 2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 1953 tinguishing these two species given in The Myriapoda of the Philippine Islands (Serica, vol. 1, p. 48), there was a misprint- ing in the key of couples 4a and 4c, which should be corrected to read as follows : "4a. . . . the third tergite having the spiracles large and lon- gitudinally ellipic Cryptops brunnens. 4c. . . . the third tergite having the spiracles as usual Cryptops inelanotypus." Otostigmus astenus Kohlrausch 1881 1 female 45 mm. in length, taken at Mt. Maquiling, Laguna Province, Luzon, El. 600-1200, Oct. 1945. 1 female 36 mm. in length, taken at Baguilo, Mountain Province, Luzone, El. 4200- 4400, Nov. 3, 1945. Rhysida nuda brevicornuta Wang 1950 1 female 22 mm. in length, taken at Alabang, Rizal Province, Luzon, Dec. 1945. It was formerly found at Mindanau. The name of this species is misprinted on pages 42 and 55 respec- tively in Serica, vol. 1, as R. N. brevicornis. Scolopendra subspinipes subspinipes Leach 1815 1 female 30 mm. taken at Mt. Maquiling, Paguna Province, Luzon, El. 1100-1400, Sept. 29, 1945. Scolopendra morsitans L. 1758 1 male 50 mm. in length, taken at Ft. \V. McKinley, Jan. 10, 1946, 1 female 62 mm. in length, taken at Alabang, Sept. 1945, 2 females 55 and 65 mm. in length, taken at Alabang, July 1945, all at Rizal Province, Luzon. Order Scutigerida Parascutigera philippina Chamberlin 1921 1 male 9 mm. in length, taken at Los Banos, Laguna Prov- ince, Luzon, July 1945. Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 3 Class DIPLOPODA Order Polydesmida Chondromorpha xanthotrica (Attems) 1898 1 male 1.5 mm. in breadth, taken at San Fernando, Lu Uni Province, Luzon, Nov. 2, 1945. 1 female 2.1 mm. in breadth, taken at Alabang, Rizal Province, Luzon, Jan. 1946. This is the new record in distribution since the Genus Chrondromorpha is mainly distributed in India ; only one species has been re- corded from Upolu, New Caledonia. This species was formerly recorded from Ceylon, Kandy. Pratinus quatuor-puteus (Wang) 1950 1 male 38 mm. in length, 3.5 mm. in breadth; 1 female 31 mm. in length, 3 mm. in breadth, taken at Mt. Maquiling, Laguna Province, Luzon, El. 1100-1400, Sept. 29, 1945. This genus was first designated as Prionopeltis Pocock 1895 but was changed to Pratinus by Attems in 1937, because the former name is preoccupied by a trilobite Prionopeltis, Hawle and Corda 1847. Accordingly, mo nt anus Chamberlin and infulatus Wang are thus to be placed under the new name. Pratinus montanus (Chamberlin) 1921 5 females, 1 male 27-45 mm. in length, 2.54- mm. in breadth taken at Mt. Maquiling, Laguna Province, Luzon, El. 600- 3200, Oct., Nov., Dec. 1945 ; 1 female 41 mm. in length taken at Mariveles Res., Zambales Mts., Zambales Province, Luzon, El. 700-1000, Nov. 27, 1945. Strongylosoma philippina Chamberlin 1921 1 male taken at Mt. Maquiling, Laguna Province, Luzon, El. 1100-1400, Sept. 29, 1945. Platyrhacus margaritiferus Gervais 1847 1 male, 1 female taken at Mt. Maquiling, Laguna Province, Luzon, El. 1100-1500, Sept. 29, 1945, Jan. 13, 1946. Platyrhacus dorsalis Peters 1864 1 female from the Philippines in the University of Utah Col- lection. 4 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 1953 Order Spirobolida Trigoniulus laminifer docens Wang 1950 1 male, taken at Mt. Maquiling, Laguna Province, Luzon, El. 1500-3200, Nov. 21, 1945. Spirostrophus socius socius Chamberlin 1921 1 female each taken at Mt. Maquiling, Laguna Province, Luzon, El. 800-3000, Nov. 18, 1945, and at Dolores, Tayabas Province, Luzon, El. 1200, Nov. 13, 1945. Spirostrophus socius mindanaunus Wang 1950 1 male taken at Mt. Maquiling, Laguna Province, Luzon, El. 600-1200, Oct. 13, 1945. Spirostrophus socius sumarinus Wang 1950 2 females taken at Los Banos, Laguna Province, Luzon, Oct. 30, 1945. Improved Technique for Rearing Chigger Mites lf 2 ( Acarina : Trombiculidae) By Louis J. LIPOVSKY A culture tube and a dish for rearing chiggers have been used successfully for the past four years. The tube and dish are used without any material other than a mixture of charcoal and plaster of Paris which line the tube and dish. The tube is used primarily for engorged larvae held for transformation into nymphs ; however, rearing may be continued through the adult stage using the 3- or 5-dram vial described below. The culture dish is especially useful and convenient for observations and ease of manipulation of the post-larval stages. 1 The studies upon which this paper is based were conducted under contract, N6 ori 220 Task Order II, between the University of Kansas and the Office of Naval Research. 2 Contribution number 792 from the Department of Entomology, Uni- versity of Kansas. Ixiv | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 5 The culture tube is a modification of the tube described by Farrell and Wharton (1948, Jour. Parasit. 34: 71) for ship- ping larval trombiculids ; however, it is made with a 3- or 5- dram, Kimble "Opticlear," plastic-stoppered vial instead of a cork-stoppered shell vial. This plastic-stoppered vial is suit- able for shipping all stages of chiggers as well as the collem- boans which are cultured as food for the nymphs and adults (Lipovsky, 1951, Jour. Parasit. 37: 324-326). The vial, 3- or 5-dram, is lined completely with a charcoal and plaster of Paris mixture. This mixture is prepared as follows : mix 600 c.c. of dry, slow-setting (common) plaster of Paris with 50 c.c. of powdered charcoal ; blend thoroughly by shak- ing in a capped jar. This amount of plaster mixture will be sufficient for many vials. The same mixture is used to make the culture dish. Seven cubic centimeters (slightly compacted) of this dry mix- ture is placed in the 3 -dram vial and to this 3 c.c. of water are added and mixed until plastic but not fluid ; if it flows add a little more dry mixture. Then the plastic stopper is placed tightly in the vial, and, holding the inverted vial between thumb and fore- finger, the stoppered end is tapped sharply 6 to 8 times on a flat, solid, wooden surface. Turned upright again, the vial is tapped 3 to 4 times (relax hold on vial during moment of impact to avoid injury if vial should break). At this point the top and sides of the vial should be lined with a thin, uniform coat and the bottom of the vial should contain about 15 mm. of wet plaster. After the plaster has set, the stopper is slowly removed. The plaster lined vial should have a thin seal at the opening of the tube, just beneath the bottom level of the plastic stopper. This seal is removed carefully and then discarded. For the admission of light within the tube, 4 or 5 longitudinal slits are made in the plaster on the sides of the tube. The culture tube is now ready for use. Stoppered tubes will maintain a uniform humidity for many months and no water need be added when chiggers are first placed in the tubes. When these tubes are used for shipping, 3 or 4 pin holes should be made in the bottom portion of the 6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 1953 stopper ; and if the top of the cap is also solid, pin holes should be made here also to compensate for the changes in tempera- tures and pressures encountered during shipment. If a tube is opened frequently for observations, a few drops of water may be added as needed but care should be taken to avoid adding water in excess of that absorbed by the plaster. The dish is a stender dish with an inside diameter of 65 mm. and 20 mm. in depth. It is lined inside with the same plaster mixture used in making the culture tube. The wet mixture is blended and shaped against the sides of the dish up to the top edge, then the bottom of the dish is tapped until the mixture forms a level bottom with a thin plaster lining on the sides. When set, the plaster should be smooth, free of pits and cavi- ties. The upper 6 mm. of plaster lining should be removed to form a plaster-free zone. This plaster-free band must be kept clean and smooth to act as a barrier to the nymphs and adults. Coating the outside of the dish and the entire lid with paraffin as well as covering the lid with waxed paped is recommended. As the paraffin solidifies on the lid, the dish and lid are fitted to- gether tightly. The lid is then covered with a sheet of thin waxed paper by placing the waxed paper over the open dish, pressing the lid snugly to the dish, lifting the edges of the paper over the top of the lid and fusing it to the paraffin coating with a hot spatula. The inner central portion of the paper should re- main free, leaving a space between the waxed paper and the lid. Farrell and Wharton (1949, Jour. Parasit. 35: 435) recom- mend the use of vermiculite, a mica, as a "substrate" over a charcoal-plaster mixture. Hyland (1951, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. 44: 297301) reported on the use of a small stender dish as a microculture dish, with the charcoal-plaster mixture covered with a thin layer of sterilized soil. The writer has found that two grooves cut into the plaster surface about 2 mm. in depth and 2 mm. wide, in the form of a cross, and centrally located, is all that is needed. These straight grooves provide a protective niche into which nymphal and adult chiggers may crawl, where they may transform and yet be visible under the microscope. In dishes which contain both collembolans and chiggers for periods Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 7 of weeks or months, the grooves become filled with eggs, exu- viae, and some debris under which chiggers may conceal them- selves. These grooves, therefore, should be cleaned out peri- odically to avoid possible injury to specimens when trying to locate them. This culture dish is ideal for individual rearing of chiggers or for as many as 50 adults of the same species. In the latter in- stance, food must be available at all times or they may eat their own eggs for they are cannibalistic. Their own eggs are fre- quently eaten even when other food is available. In addition, this culture dish has been used successfully for rearing other small arthropods including mites of the families Oribatidae, Tyroglyphidae, Trombidiidae, Phytoseiidae, Macro- chelidae, Anoetidae, Uropodidae, and Cheyletidae as well as in- sects of the families Cryptostemmatidae (Hemiptera), Staphy- linidae and other coleopterous species, and Stratiomyiidae, Sciaridae, Mycetophylidae and other Diptera. Catches of Euplexoptera and Elateridae in Light Traps in South Dakota By H. C. SEVERIN, South Dakota State College Light traps have been operated in representative areas in South Dakota for many years and during this time much valu- able information concerning insects has been accumulated. In this article, catches dealing only with Euplexoptera and Elateri- dae will be discussed. The earwig, Labia minor (L.) is the only species of Euplex- optera that can be reported as occurring in South Dakota at the present time. This earwig is not common in South Dakota and strange to say we have been able to collect it only through light traps or from illuminated show windows of store buildings in southeastern South Dakota. Diligent search has been made for this species of earwig in what should have been very favorabU- environments, but we have not been able to collect a single 8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 1953 specimen in such areas. However, by means of light traps, we have taken as many as fifteen specimens of this earwig in a sin- gle night. While specimens were taken from illuminated show windows of store buildings, it has not been possible for us to collect more than three of four earwigs from such windows in a single evening. The light traps, through which we collected this species of earwig, were suspended by means of wires from cross arms at- tached to posts. The bottom of each trap was about seven feet from the surface of the soil. The environment in which the largest numbers of earwigs were collected was adjacent to a cattle feeding yard which contained quite a large accumulation of cow manure. Contrary to the conclusion of S. W. Frost,* we are forced to believe that at times, at least, Labia minor (L.) is attracted through light supplied by Mazda frosted lamps of 60, 100, or 200 watts or by fluorescent day-light tubes of 15 watts. Twenty species of adult Elateridae were taken thus far in South Dakota in light traps.** The species collected are the following : 1. Conoderus vespertinus (Fab.) 2. Conoderus auritus (Hbst.) 3. Drasterius dorsalis (Say) 4. Lirnonius nr sinus (VanDyke) 5. Athous cucuUatus (Say) 6. Hemicrepidius memnonius (Hbst.) 7. Glyphonyx recticollis (Say) 8. Ampedes obliquus (Say) 9. Ampedes areolatus (Say) 10. Megapenthes stigmosis (Lee.) 11. Melanotus deciinianus (Er.)=M. canadensis (Cond.) ace. to Dietrich. 12. Melanotus ignobilis (Melsh.) 13. Melanotus connnnnis (Gyll.) Var. "A" of Dietrich 14. Melanotus communis (Gyll.) Var. "B" of Dietrich 15. Melanotus divarcarinus (Blatchley) 16. Melanotus fissilis (Say) * FROST, S. W. 1952. Unusual catches in light traps. Ent. News, 63: 151-152. ** SEVERIN, H. C. 1949. The wireworms (Elateridae) of South Dakota. S. D. Agr. Exp. Sta. Tech. Bull. 8: 18. Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 9 17. Mclanotits injanstus (Lee.) 18. Melanotus cribulosits (Lee.) 19. Cardiophonts convex u.v (Say) 20. Horistonotns uhleri (Horn-) Of the species listed, those numbered 1, 3, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 16, and 19 were taken in large numbers in the light traps. None of the traps were located under or in trees or under structures from which the beetles might have fallen by accident into the traps. Consequently, the conclusion must be drawn that most of the specimens taken were attracted to the traps by the light. It should be stated that the number of specimens of a particu- lar species of Elateridae that are taken in a light trap may de- pend upon many factors, only two of which will be mentioned. One of the most important factors is the effect of the ecological environment upon the abundance of the Elaterid. As an ex- ample of this Hemicrepdins memnoniits (Hbst.) may be men- tioned. In one of the traps located in a low area that was poorly drained and adjacent to a pond, it was not uncommon to take fifty to seventy-five specimens of this species every warm, rainless, calm night during the month of July. Another important factor which may determine the number of specimens of a particular species of Elaterid that may be taken in a light trap is the time of year when the traps are run. \Ye have taken specimens of Elateridae in traps from May through September, but in general, June, July, and August were the most favorable months, with July being the peak month. An Acknowledgment ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS wishes to express its thanks and ap- preciation to the ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILA- DELPHIA for contributing a portion of the time of its Librarian. Mrs. Phillips, for compiling its "CURRENT ENTOMOLOGICAL LITERATURE." This generous action by the ACADEMY assures the continuance of a unique and valuable feature of the NEWS. one upon which many of its readers have come to depend for keeping abreast of current developments in entomology. 10 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 1953 Earwigs at Light The infrequency of observations and scarcity of records on the 15 or so species of Dermaptera in the United States have suggested that these insects are not attracted by light. Al- though a few collectors have taken earwigs at light,* as evi- denced by collection labels and literature notes, I submit the following cases where earwigs have definitely been attracted to light or were scavenging under lights. Doru linear e (Escholtz) has been most commonly recorded at light. Both sexes of this earwig regularly flew in to 3 Coleman lanterns set up before a sheet in many localities in Arizona and Texas, from May through September, 1948. During the same season in Mexico, from the state of Nuevo Leon south to Vera Cruz, Puebla, and Guerrero, they often came to the lights by the hundreds. Spongovosto.v apiccdcntatus (Caudell). Both sexes were taken at lights in Sabino Canyon, Santa Catalina Mts., Arizona, July, 1948. Labia minor (L). In Lexington, Mass., June, 1952, one female was caught in erratic, spiraling flight around an indoor light, similar to that shown by many moths and beetles. Labidiira riparia (Pallas). One female was observed run- ning about, probably scavenging, on a broad, well-lighted ex- panse of concrete in Dayton, Texas, September, 1949. Forficula aitricularia (L). Dr. K. A. Christiansen took sev- eral nymphs and one female in a light trap at Palouse, Wash- ington, June, 1950. The last two records are probably cases of scavenging at light, although the others indicate that certain species of ear- wigs are definitely attracted by light. Since many winged males of such photophobic insects as roaches are well known to be attracted to light, it does not seem surprising that earwigs might also be so attracted. -W. L. NUTTING, Biological Laboratories, Harvard University. * FROST, S. W. 1952. Unusual catches in light traps. Ent. News, 63: 151-152. Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 11 Current Entomological Literature Compiled by VENIA T. PHILLIPS, Librarian Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania pertaining to entomology, including all arthropods except Crustacea. Coverage will be world-wide as regards major contributions to systematics as well as for all papers on morphology, physiology, em- bryology, etc. In addition, for species from the Americas and the Pacific (Nearctic, Neotropical and Polynesian regions) all minor contributions to taxonomy, distribution, etc., will also be recorded. This list gives references of the year 1952 unless otherwise noted. Continued papers, with few exceptions, are recorded only at their first installment. For other records of general literature and for economic literature, see the Bibliog- raphy of Agriculture, Washington, and the Review of Applied Entomology, Series A, London. For records of papers on medical entomology see Review of Applied Entomology, Series B. NOTE: The figures within brackets [ ] refer to the journal in which the paper ap- peared, as numbered in the List of periodicals and serials published in our January and June issues. The number of the volume, and in some cases, the part, heft, &c. is followed by a colon (:). References to papers containing new forms or names not so stated in titles are followed by (*); if containing keys are followed by (k); papers pertaining ex- clusively to Neotropical species, and not so indicated in the title, have the symbol (S). Papers published in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS are not listed. GENERAL Anon. Henry Jerome Turner (1856-1950). [144] 1951-52: xiii. (Obit., port.) Bernard, F. (See Hy- menoptera.) Boschma, H. Alicia Margaretha Buitendijk. [57] 13, no. 306: 177-178, 1950. (Obit., bibl.) Coiffait, H. Quelques donnees actuelles sur 1'ecologie et 1'ethologie des arthropodes cavernicoles terrestres et endoges. [135] 86: 125-130. Coquillat, M. Anthelme-Jean Range, 1896- 1950. [140] 19: 213-214, 1950. (Obit., port.) Davies, D. E. (See Orthoptera.) Davies, D. M. (See Diptera.) De- Coursey, J. D. & A. P. Webster. Inhibition of growth of a mold quantitated to demonstrate the effect in insect speci- men boxes. [101] 60: 183-188. Delamare-Deboutteville, C. (See Smaller Orders.) Docters van Leeuwen, W. M. In memoriam Karel Willem Dammerman. [57 1 14. no. 319: 1-2. Eyndhoven, G. L. van. In memoriam Dr. Don- ald MacGillavry, 21.V.1869-13.I.1951. [149] 95: 1-7, ports. Eyndhoven, G. L. van. In memoriam Prof. Dr. Ivar Tragardh 1 6-1 X-l 878-22- V-1951. [57] 13, no. 315: 335- 336.' 1951. Havelka, J. Osobni-Personalia. RNDr. Karel Pfleger. [45] 48: 141-142, 1951. (Obit., portr.) Hayrov- sky,' L. Osobni. Frantisek Sterba. [45] 48: 263, 1951. (Obit., bibl. ) Hemming, F. International code of zoologi- cal nomenclature; proposed amplification clarifications and extensions to be considered by the International Congress of Zoology. Copenhagen, 1953. (Notice.) [52] 45 : 499- 500. Hemming, F. International code of zoological no- 12 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 1953 menclature ; proposed amplification clarifications and exten- sions to be considered by the Int. Congr. Zoology, Copen- hagen, 1953. [57] 14, "no. 323: 78-79. Hulls,' L. G.- Entomology during the early years of the Royal Society, as revealed by the Philosophical Transactions. [144] 1951- 52 : 8490. Husbands, Richard C. Some techniques used in the study of Aedes eggs in irrigated pastures in Cali- fornia (Culicidae). [92] 12: 145-150, ill. John, H. Eine methode zur trockenpraparation von raupen. [28] 2: 315- 317. Jones, J. C. & J. L. Schelteme. (See Diptera.) Leefmans, S. Dr. Leland O. Howard (1857-1950). [57] 13, no. 308: 209-210, 1951. (Obit.) Leefmans, S. In me- moriam R. A. Polak. [57] 14, no. 322: 49-50. Lempke, B. J. In memoriam Cornells Doets, 10 Sept. 1893-15 June 1952. [57] 14, no. 326: 113-115. (Port., bibl.) Lempke, B. J. In memoriam Johannes Bastiaan Corporaal. [57] 14, no. 325: 97-98. (Port.) McLintock, J. Continuous laboratory rearing of Culiseta inornata (Will.) (Culicidae). [92] 12: 195-201. Maessen, Th. How I kept my butterfly collection in tropical West-Africa. [57] 13, no. 318: 379- 380, 1951. Maltais, J. B. (See Hemiptera.) Narayanan, E. S. & T. V. Venkatraman. (See Hymenoptera.) Os- born, H. A brief history of entomology including time of Demosthenes and Aristotle to modern times with over five hundred portraits. Pp. iv + 303, Columbus, Ohio, Spahr & Glenn, $4.50. (Rev. by H. B. Weiss in [101] 60: 178.) Osborn, H. In memoriam, Clarence Hamilton Kennedy, 1879-1952. [52] 45: 361-363. (Port.) Popham, E. J.- Observations on the behaviour of aquatic insects during the drying up of a small moorland pond. [60] 88: 180-181. Robinson, A. G. (See Arachnida.) Robinson, H. S. The optimum conditions for the occurrences and observation of rare insects. [144] 1951-52: 118-125. Roepke, W. In memoriam Dr. J. C. Koningsberger. [57] 13, no. 311 : 257- 258, 1951. Roepke, W. In memoriam (Heer Hendrik Lucht). [57] 13, no. 312: 286, 1951. Roepke, W. In memoriam Professor Dr. L. J. Toxopeus. [57] 13, no. 313: 289, 1951. Roepke, W. Professor Dr. L. J. Toxopeus ter nagedachtenis. [149] 95 : 9-22. (Port., bibl.) Sham- baugh, G. F. Microinjection technique in mosquitoes (Culicidae). [92] 12: 216, ill. Simmonds, F. J. Parasites of the frit-fly, Oscinella frit (L.) in eastern North America. [40] 43: 503-542, ill. (*). Slaby, O. Concerning the de- pendence of the Lepidoptera fauna of Bohemia on climatic cycles (in Bohemian, with Eng. summary). [45] 48: 242- Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 13 253, 1951. Smith, R. W. Another method of rearing grasshoppers in the laboratory. [43] 84: 269-271, ill. Starcke, A. J. A. F. Lodeizen. [57] 13, no. 309: 225-226, 1951. (Obit.) Vago, C. Le role des microbes de 1'in- terieur des oeufs d'insectes en vue de 1'emploi de ces derniers coninie milieux vivants. [135] 86: 252-258. Weber, N. A. 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Husbands, Richard C. (See General.) James, H. G. Natural control of Tabanidae in the region of Churchill, Manitoba. [54] 82: 70-74, ill. James, M. T. & H. C. Huckett. The Diptera collected by I. O. Buss in south- western Yukon Territory during the summer of 1950. [43] 84: 265-267, ill. James," M. T. & G. C. Steyskal A review of the nearctic Stratiomyini. [52] 45: 385-414, ill. (*K). Jones, J. C. Prothoracic aortic sinuses in Anopheles, Culex and Aedes (Culicidae). [56] 54: 244-246, ill. Jones, J. C. & J. L. Scheltema. A small-animal restrainer for feeding mosquitoes in small cages (Culicidae). [92] 12: 215-216. Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 21 ill. Keener, G. G. Observations on over-wintering of Culex tarsalis Coquillett (Culicidae) in western Nebraska. [92] 12: 205-209, ill. Kessel, E. L. A key to the genera of Clythiiclae. [153] 10: 201-204. Kettle," D. S. & ]. W. H. Lawson. The early stages of British biting midges Culicoides Latreille (Ceratopogonidae) and allied genera. [40] 43: 421-467, ill. (K). Lane, J. & O. P. Forattini.- New data on Sabethini (Culicidae). [56] 54: 254-257, ill. (*). Levi-Castillo, R. Wyeomia (Wyeomyia) aphobema var. aequatorialis var. n., a new sabethine mosquito from Ecuador. [125] 21: 131-133, ill. McLintock, J. (See General.) Mattingly, P. F. The sub-genus Stegomyia (Culicidae) in the Ethiopian region, Pt. 1. [35] 2: 235- 304 (K), ill. Nijveldt, W. Over de levenswijze van Phaenpbremia urticariae Kffr. (Itonididae) f. n. sp. [57] 14, no. 320: 23-29, ill. (English summary.) Poulson, D. F., V. T. Bowen, R. M. Hilse & A. C. "Rubinson. (See Anatomy.) Roth, L. M. & E. R. Willis. (See Anatomy.) Schuurmans Stekhoven, J. H., Jr. Pupiparen. [29] 3: 91 101, ill. (*S). Shambaugh, G. F. (See General.) Sim- monds, F. J. (See General.) Smith, C. C. The life-his- tory and galls of a spruce gall midge, Phytophaga piceae Felt (Cecidomyiidae). [43] 84: 272-275, ill. Snyder, F. M. New species of Pegomyia from Mexico (Muscidae). [52] 45 : 415-422. Sobels, F/H. Genetics and morphology of the genotype "Asymmetric" with special reference to its "Abnormal abdomen" character (Drosophila melanogaster). [Genetica] 26: 117-279, ill. Thienemann, A. Bestimmung- stabelle fiir die larven der mit Diamesa nachst verwandten chironomiden. ]2S] 2: 244-256, ill. Turcek, F. J. The larva of Oestromyia satyrus parasitic in the vole Micro- tus arvalis Pall. '(Hypoderm., Dipt.). [45] 48: 240-241, ill., 1951. Vaillant, F. Les larves d'Hermione d'Algerie (Stratiomyiidae). [Bull. Soc. d'Hist. Nat. Afr. nord] 43: 8-15, ill. Vockeroth, J. R. A new nearctic species of Rhaphium, with notes on other species (Dolichopodidae). [43] 84: 276-280 (K), ill. Vockeroth, J. R. The specific status of Aedes pionips Dyar (Culicidae). [43] 84: 243- 247, ill. Wirth, W. W. The genus Alluaudomyia Kieffer in North America (Heleidae | Ceratogoponidae] ). [52] 45: 423-434, ill. (*K). Wirth, W. W. The immature stages of two species of Florida salt marsh sand flies (Heleidae [Ceratopogonidae]). [64] 35: 91-100. ill. Wirth, W. W. -Three new nearctic species of Systemus with a descrip- 22 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 1953 tion of the immature stages from tree cavities (Dolicho- podidae). [56] 54: 236-244, ill. (*K). COLEOPTERA Balthasar, V. Les especes du genre Heptaulacus Muls. avec la description d'un nouveau genre et d'une espece nouvelle (Scarabaeidae). [45] 48: 145-154 (*), 1951. Banninger, M. Ozaenini und Scaritini (Carab.). [29] 3: 123-124 (S). Bertrand, H. Captures et elevages de larves de coleopteres aquatiques (15 e note). [138] 57: 91-95, ill. Besson, J. Sur la biologic de Capnodis tene- brionis dans la region Toulousaine. [135] 86: 97-101. Blake, D. H. Six new species of Megistops with keys to the known species. [115] 59: 1-12, ill. Bosq, J. M. Enumeracion de predatores observados en la Republica Argentina (Coleopteros y Hemipteros). [Argentina, Min. Agr. y Gan. Ser. A] 8, no. 54, 29 p. Cashman, E. F.- Effect of parental feeding on rate of development of off- spring of the confused flour beetle, Tribolium confusum Duv. (Tenebrionidae). [54] 82 : 74-77. Chorabik, S. (See Anatomy.) Coiffait, H. Sur la biologic des speonomus de sous-genre Phacomorphus. [135] 86: 347-348. Corporaal, J. B. Cleridae. [29] 3: 126-137 (S). Darlington, P. J., Jr. The carabid beetles of New Guinea. Part 2, Agonini. [68] 107: 89-252 (*), ill. Fiedler, C. Cryptorrhynchinae (Cure.) und gen. Piazurus (Cure., Zygop.). [29] 3: 70-90 (S). Fiedler, C. Unbeschriebene sudamerikanische Cryp- torhynchiden-arten (Curculionidae). [159] 149: 61-74 (*). Guerin, J. Contribuiqao para o conhecimento dos Cly- tridae neotropicais. [48] 3 : 203-210, ill. Guignot, F. De- scription de dystiscides inedits de la collection Regimbart et de quelques autres especes et varietes nouvelles (in- cludes neotropical). [Revue Franc. d'Ent.] 19: 166-171, ill. Guignot, F. Sur la systematique des Dineutus (Gy- rinidae). [140] 19: 124-127, 1950 (K). Hood, J. D. The story of Hartonymus hoodi Casey (Carabidae). [101] 60: 173-177, ill. Howden, H. F. & P. O. Ritcher. Biology of Deltochilum gibbosum (Fab.) with a description of the larva. [47] 6: 53-57, ill. Howe, R. W Notes on the biology of Trogoderma versicolor Creutz. (Dermestidae). [60] 88: 182-184, ill. Jedlicka, A. Chlaeniini (Carab.). [29] 3: 125 (*S). Kleine, R. Brenthidae. [29] 3: 58-61 (S). Lepesrne, P. Longicornia, v. 1, Paul Lechevalier, Paris, 1950. 3500 frs. (Rev. by J. B. Corporaal in [57] 18, no. 313: 303-304.) Lepesme, P. (See General.) Mac- Swain, J. W. A synopsis of the genus Gnathium, with de- Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 23 scription of new species (Meloiclae). [153J 10: 205-224 (K), ill. Mader, L. Erotylidae. [29] 3: 138-188 (*S). Martinez, A. Notas sobre'Meloidae II. [132] 153: 254- 258 (S*), ill. Maxwell, C. W. B. The overwintering habits of the strawberry weevil, Anthonomus signatus Say (Curculionidae) in New Brunswick. [54] 82: 25-28. Monros, F. & M. M. de Monros. Las especies Argentinas de Cupedidae. 1 132] 154: 19-41, ill. Nagel, P. Lucani- dae. [29] 3: 189-190 (S). Nunberg, M. Contribution to the knowledge of prothoracic glands of Scolytidae and Platypodidae. [93] 14: 261-265, ill. Ohaus, F. Rutelinae (Scarab.). [29] 3: 1-10 (S). Olifan, V. L (See Anat- omy.) Schedl, K. E. Bark- and ambrosia beetles from Surinam, I. (Scolytidae). [57] 13, no. 318: 376-378, ill., 1951. Schedl, K. E. Scolytoidae. [29] 3: 62-69 (*S). Smith, S. G. (See Anatomy.) Spaeth, F. Cassidinae (Chrysom.). [29] 3: 11-43 (*S). Uhmann, E. Hispinae (Chrys.). [29] 3: 44-57. ill. (*S). Walkley, L. M. Re- vision of the Lathridiini of the state of Washington (Lathridiidae). [56] 54: 217-235, ill. (*K). Warner, R. E. Another European weevil, Pentarthrum huttoni Woll. in North America. [47] 6: 51-52. Wilkinson, W. Verti- cal reduplication of a leg in Agabus bipustulatus (L.) (Dytiscidae). [60] 88: 191-192. ill. Zikan, J. F. (See Lepidoptera.) HYMENOPTERA Bernard, F. Adaptations au milieu chez les fourmis Sahariennes (Formicidae). [135] 86: 88- 96. Blanchard, E. E. Descripcion de un himenoptero (Braconidae) parasite de "Riculoides gallicola" sp. nov. [132] 154: 78-80, ill. Brown, W. L., Jr. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae, I. Tribe Platy- thyreini. [67] 6: 1-6. Brown, W. L., Jr. Heteroponera Mayr reinstated (Formicidae). [115] 59: 70. Brown, W. L., Jr. Interesting northern records for eastern Hyme- noptera (Formicidae and Embolemidae). [115] 59': 12. Burks, B. D. A ne\v mealybug parasite (Encyrtidae). [101] 60: 179-182, ill. Burks,' B. D. The North American species of Syntomosphyrum (Chalcidoidea). [56] 54: 258- 264 (*K). 'Cole, A. C. A new Pheidole (Formicidae) from Florida. [52] 45: 443-444. Cole, A. C. Notes on the Pheidole pilifera (Roger) complex and a description of a new subspecies (Formicidae). [147] 27: 278-280 (K). Creighton, W. S. Studies on Arizona ants. (3). The hab- its of Pogonomyrmex huachucanus \Yheeler and a descrip- 24 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 1953 tion of the sexual castes (Formiciclae). [115] 59: 71-81, ill. Doutt, R. L. The teratoid larva of polvembryonic Encyrtidae. [43] 84: 247-250. Eisner, T. & E.'O. Wilson. -The morphology of the proventriculus of a formicine ant (Formicidae). [115] 59: 47-60, ill. Forbes, James. The genitalia and terminal segments of the male carpenter ant, Camponotus pennsylvanicus Degeer (Formicidae). [101] 60: 157-171, ill. Gregg, R. E. The female of Formica opaciventris Emery (Formicidae). [115] 59: 13-19. Grosch, D. S. The spinning glands of impaternate (male) Habrobracon larvae: morphology and cytology (Braconi- dae). [79] 91: 221-236, ill. Headley, A. E. Colonies of ants in a locust wood (Formicidae). [52] 45: 435-442. Heron, R. J. Notes on the feeding of larvae of the larch sawrly, Pristiphora erichsonii (Htg.) (Tenthredinidae). [54] '82: 67-70. Kalmus, H. & C. R. Ribbands. The origin of the odours by which honeybees distinguish their companions. [127] 104: 50-59. Kusnezov, N. Algunos datos sobre la dispersion geografica de hormigas (Formici- dae) en la Republica Argentina. [132] 153: 230-242. Narayanan, E. S. & T. V. Venkatraman. Technique of mass multiplication of Tenobracon deesae (Cam.) Hyme- noptera: Braconidae for use against sugarcane and maize borers. [Proc. Indian Acad. Sci.] 36: 12-18, ill. Nixon, H. L. & C. R. Ribbands. Food transmission within the honeybee community. [127] 104: 43-50. Olifan, V. L- (See Anatomy.) Reinhardt, J. F. (See Anatomy.) Rib- bands, C. R. Division of labour in the honeybee commu- nity. [127] 140: 32-43. Strojny, W. Some observations on the egg-laying process of Ephialtes tuberculatus Fourcr. (Ichneumonidae) parasite of the larva of Cryptorrhynchus lapathi L. (Curcul.). (In Polish with English summary.) [114] 21: 140-144, ill., 1951. Weber, N. A. Observations on Baghdad ants, I. [Baghdad College of Arts & Science, Publication] 1, 30 p., ill. Wong, H. R. Cocoons of some sawflies that defoliate trees in Manitoba and Saskatchewan (Tenthredidae, Diprionidae, Argidae). [54] 82: 61-67 (K), ill. Zikan, J. F. O genero Mischocyttarus Saussure (Vespidae), com a descricao de 82 especies novas. [Bol. Parq. Nac. Itatiaia, Rio de Jan.] 1, 251 p., ill., 1949. l\iv| ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 25 List of Titles of Publications Referred to by Numbers in Entomological Literature in Entomological News. 1. Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, Anais. Rio de Janeiro. 2. Academie des Sciences, Comptes Rendus. Paris. 3. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Notulae Naturae. 4. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Proceedings. 5. Acta Biologica Venezuelica. Caracas. 6. Acta Biotheoretica. Leiden, Netherlands. 7. Acta Zoologica (Int. tidskrift for Zoologi). Stockholm. 8. Acta Zoologica Lilloana. Tucuman, Argentina. 9. American Entomological Society, Transactions. Philadelphia. 10. American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene. Baltimore, Md. 11. American Microscopical Society, Transactions. Menasha, Wise. 12. American Midland Naturalist. Notre Dame,, Ind. 13. American Museum Novitates. New York. 14. American Museum of Natural History, Bulletin. New York. 15. American Naturalist. Lancaster, Pa. 16. Anatomical Record. Philadelphia. 17. Annales de Parasitologie humaine et comparee. Paris. 18. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie. Paris. 19. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. London. 20. Annals of Applied Biology. London. 21. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology. Liverpool. 22. Anti-locust Bulletin. London. 23. Archives de Zoologie Experimentale et Generale. Paris. 24. Archives de Zoologie Experimentale et Generale. Notes et Revue. 25. Arkiv for Zoologi. K. Svenska Vetenskapsakademien, Stockholm. 26. Arthropoda. Asoc. Argent. Artropodologia. Buenos Aires. 27. Australian Journal of Scientific Research, Ser. B. Canberra. 28. Beitrage zur Entomologie (Deutsch. Ent. Inst.) Berlin. 29. Beitrage zur Fauna Perus. Jena. 30. Biological Bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass. 31. Biological Society of Washington, Proceedings. Washington, D. C. 32. Boletin de Entomologia Venezolana. Caracas. 33. Bombay Natural History Society, Journal. 34. Bonner Zoologische Beitrage. Bonn, Germany. 35. British Museum (Nat. Hist.), Bulletin. Entomology. 36. Brooklyn Entomological Society, Bulletin. 37. Broteria, Ser. trimestral. Lisbon, Portugal. 38. Buenos Aires. Institute Nac. Investig. Ciencias Nat. Zoologica. 39. Bulletin Biologique de la France et de la Belgique. Paris. 40. Bulletin of Entomological Research. London. 41. California Insect Survey, Bulletin. Berkeley, Cal. 42. California Univ. Publications in Entomology. Berkeley. 43. Canadian Entomologist. Ottawa, Ont. 44. Canadian Journal of Zoology. Ottawa, Canada. 45. Ceskoslovenska Spolecnost Ent., Casopis. (Acta Soc. Ent.) Prague. 46. Ceylon Journal of Science, Sect. B. Colombo. 47. Coleopterists' Bulletin. Arlington, Va. 48. Dusenia. Curitiba, Parana, Brazil. 49. Ecological Monographs. Durham, N. C. 50. Ecology. Durham, N. C. 51. Entomologica Americana. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. 52. Entomological Society of America, Annals. Columbus, Ohio. 26 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 1953 53. Entomological Society of British Columbia, Proceedings. Vernon. 54. Entomological Society of Ontario, Annual Report. Guelph. 55. Entomological Society of Southern Africa, Journal. Pretoria. 56. Entomological Society of Washington, Proceedings. Washington, D. C. 57. Entomologische Berichten. (Ned. Ent. Ver.) Amsterdam. 58. The Entomologist. London. 59. L'Entomologiste. Paris. 60. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. London. 61. Eos; Revista Espanola de Entomologia. Madrid. 62. Evolution. New York. 63. Faune de 1'Union Franchise (Formerly Faune de 1'Empire Franqais). 64. Florida Entomologist. Gainesville. 65. Folia Universitaria. Cochabamba, Bolivia. 66. Great Basin Naturalist. Provo, Utah. 67. Harvard Museum of Comparative Zool. Breviora. Cambridge, Mass. 68. Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, Bulletin. Cambridge, Mass. 69. Hawaiian Entomological Society, Proceedings. Honolulu. 70. Hilgardia (California Agr. Expt. Sta.). Berkeley. 71. Illinois State Academy of Sciences, Transactions. Springfield. 72. Institut Scientifique de Madagascar, Memoires, Ser. E. Tananarive. 73. Iowa State College Journal of Science. Ames. 74. Journal of Animal Ecology. London. 75. Journal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology. Philadelphia. 76. Journal of Economic Entomology. Menasha, Wisconsin. 77. Journal of Experimental Biology. London. 78. Journal of Experimental Zoology. Philadelphia. 79. Journal of Morphology. Philadelphia. 80. Journal of Parasitology. Lancaster, Pa. 81. Kansas Academy of Sciences, Transactions. Manhattan. 82. Kansas Entomological Society, Journal. Lawrence. 83. Kansas University. Science Bulletins. Lawrence. 84. Lambillionea (Union Ent. Beige). Brussels. 85. Lepidopterists' News. New Haven, Conn. 86. Louisiana Academy of Sciences, Proceedings. New Orleans. 87. Mexico. Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologicas, Anales. 88. Mexico Univ. Institute de Biologia, Anales. Mexico City. 89. Michigan Univ. Museum of Zoology, Occasional Papers. Ann Arbor. 90. Microentomology. Stanford University, California. 91. Mocambique; Documentario Trimestral. Lourenqo Marques. 92. Mosquito News. New Brunswick, N. J. 93. Musei Zoologici Polonici, Annales. Warsaw, Poland. 94. Musei Zoologici Polonici. Fragmenta Faunistica. Warsaw, Poland. 95. Naples Univ. Institute e Museo Zoologico, Annuario. 96. National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings. Washington, D. C. 97. Natural History Miscellanea (Chicago Academy of Sciences). 98. Nature. London. 99. Naturforschende Gesellschaft Zurich, Vierteljahrsschrift. 100. Die Naturwissenschaften. Berlin. 101. New York Entomological Society, Journal. 102. Norsk Entomologisk Tidsskrift. Oslo. 103. Notulae Entomologicae. Helsingfors, Finland. 104. Oesterreiche Zoologische Zeitschrift. Vienna. 105. Office National Anti-acridien, Bulletin. Paris. 106. Ohio Journal of Science. Columbus. 107. Oikos; Acta Ecologica Scandinavica. Copenhagen, Denmark. Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 27 108. Opuscula Entomologica. Lund, Sweden. 109. Oyo-Kontyu (Nippon Society of Applied Entomology). Tokyo. 110. Pacific Science. Honolulu. 111. Pan-Pacific Entomologist. San Francisco, Cal. 112. Parasitology. London. 113. Physiological Zoology. Chicago. 114. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne. Wroclaw, Poland. 115. Psyche; A Journal of Entomology. Cambridge, Mass. 116. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science. London. 117. Revista Brasileira de Biologia. Rio de Janeiro. 118. Revista de Investigaciones Agricultura. (Argent. Min. Agr.) B. A. 119. Revue Franqaise de Lepidopterologie. Douelle, France. 120. Revue Suisse de Zoologie. Geneva, Switzerland. 121. Rio de Janeiro. Institute Oswaldo Cruz, Memorias. 122. Rio de Janeiro. Museu Nacional do Brasil, Boletim, Zool. 123. Rivista di Parassitologia. Rome, Italy. 124. Royal Entomological Society of London, Proceedings, Ser. A. 125. Royal Entomological Society of London, Proceedings, Ser. B. 126. Royal Entomological Society of London, Transactions. 127. Royal Society of London, Proceedings, Ser. B. 128. Sao Paulo, Brazil. Depart. Zool., Seer. Agr., Papeis Avulsos. 129. Sao Paulo, Brazil. Institute Biologico, Arquivos. 130. Schweizerische Entomologische Gesellschaft, Mitteilungen. Bern. 131. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Washington, D. C. 132. Sociedad Cientifica Argentina, Anales. Buenos Aires. 133. Sociedad Entomologica Argentina, Revista. Buenos Aires. 134. Sociedad Mexicana de Historia Natural, Revista. Mexico City. 135. Societe d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse, Bulletin. 136. Societe Entomologique de Belgique, Bulletin et Annales. Brussels. 137. Societe Entomologique de France, Annales. Paris. 138. Societe Entomologique de France, Bulletin. Paris. 139. Societe Fouad I d'Entomologie, Bulletin. Cairo, Egypt. 140. Societe Linneenne Lyon, Bulletin Mensuel. 141. Societe Zoologique de France, Bulletin. Paris. 142. Society for British Entomology, Journal. Bournemouth, England. 143. Society for British Entomology, Transactions. Bournemouth, Eng. 144. South London Entomological & Nat. Hist. Society, Proc. & Trans. 145. Southern California Academy of Sciences, Bulletin. Los Angeles. 146. Systematic Zoology. Washington, D. C. 147. Tennessee Academy of Sciences, Journal. Nashville. 148. Texas Journal of Science. College Station, Texas. 149. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. Amsterdam. 150. Tohoku University. Science Reports, Ser. 4. Tohoku, Japan. 151. U. S. National Museum, Proceedings. Washington, D. C. 152. Washington Academy of Sciences, Journal. Washington, D. 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THE LANCASTER PRESS, INC., Lancaster, I'a. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS VOL. LXIV FEBRUARY, 1953 Xo. 2 The Wasps of Penikese Island, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts (Hymenoptera) By KENNETH W. COOPER, University of Rochester, Rochester, N. Y. Penikese Island is a roughly L-shaped, tiny remnant of the Falmouth (or Buzzard Bay) terminal moraine, woodsless and windswept, lying in the waters of Buzzards Bay approximately one mile north of Cutty-hunk. Thus it is nearly at the end of the Elizabeth chain of islands that extends west southwest from Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and that separates the waters of Buzzards Bay from Vineyard Sound. The larger limb of Penikese runs due south and is no more than five-eighths of a mile in length and but a quarter of a mile in greatest width. The smaller limb, known as Tub Point, is joined to the main island by a barrier beach, runs to the southeast somewhat less than three-eighths of a mile, and is not quite a quarter of a mile wide at its greatest breadth. The island is low in profile, rising at no point more than 85 feet above sea level. Perhaps 80 acres of land lie above the limits of high tide, and tully half of Penikese's acreage lies between sea level and the 20-foot contour line. More or less temporary fresh-water ponds, as well as brackish ponds, stand in certain hollows of the island, and nearly two acres of marsh occupy the northeastern margin of the main body of Penikese (map in Lewis, 1924). The closest reach of the mainland of Massachusetts is Mishaum Point, south of New Bedford, approximately 4.4 miles XXW of Penikese. Further details of Penikese may be found in the accounts by Jordan (1874), Rollick (190f). Lewis (1924), Coker (1926), Fogg 30 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 1953 (1930), and Wooclworth and Wigglesworth (1934). Hollick has summed up the island's attributes, declaring Penikese to be "... about as barren and unattractive a pile of gravel and bowlders as can well be imagined." It was on Penikese, in 1873, that Louis Agassiz founded the first seaside laboratory in North America, the Anderson School of Natural History, and interest in the island and its fauna and flora stems partly from its biologically notable past. When Agassiz brought his students there, Penikese was treeless, virtu- ally shrubless, and covered with little more than common types of flowering plants and grassy pasturage for the sheep grazed there (Jordan, 1874), although when first known, at the start of the 17th Century, it appears to have been covered with woods in which a cedar predominated (v. Fogg, 1930). Since Agassiz' time the island has been employed as a turkey farm (in the early 1890s at least; see Morse, 1894), as a sheep pasturage until 1910, and from 1905-1921 a leper colony was maintained on Penikese. Not unexpectedly a sizeable floral change came about in this period, man probably being the pri- mary agent of dissemination. Shaw (in Lewis, 1924) and, especially, Fogg (1930) give valuable and detailed accounts of the flora of Penikese, and discuss in considerable detail the ex- tent and nature of the floral changes that have occurred there. Today the island has a few introduced poplars and other trees, and a fair number of shrubs are established, including staghorn sumach, scrub willows, and common elder, which provide poten- tial nesting sites for twig-dwelling wasps. As a whole the flora is still overwhelmingly an herbaceous one, and along with the large colony of common and roseate terns that nest at the north end of Penikese, common plants such as Agrostis alba. Agropyron repens, Antho.ranthum odoratum, Holcus lanatus, Plantago, Cakile, Capsella, Ritiuc.r, Nepeta and Achillca are to- day fully as typical floral elements of Penikese as they were in Agassiz' time, nearly 80 years ago. Daitcus carota, at the flowers of which so many wasps were captured in 1947, is a newcomer to Penikese since Agassiz' day. IxivJ F.NTOMOLOGICAL NK\VS 31 On August 7, 1923, biologists from Woods Hole celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Agassiz' laboratory by undertaking a one-day biological survey of Penikese, the results of which have been brought together in interesting cata- logs of the flora (Lewis, 1924) and fauna (Coker, 1926). Again, on August 3, 1947, a similar party of biologists com- memorated (somewhat prematurely) the 75th anniversary by another collecting trip on Penikese. The day was sunny and hot but, unhappily for the hymenopterist, a stiff, unrelenting breeze made the survey of flying insects difficult, except in pro- tected hollows and lees. Collecting began at approximately 1 1 :30 AM and was over by 3 :30 PM. The wasps listed be- low were collected by Drs. C. Nelson, H. Knudsen, J. A. Moore, P. W. Whiting and myself, and remained in my possession for identification ; most specimens are now on deposit in the U. S. National Museum. The nomenclature in the following list is that of Muesebeck, Krombein and Townes (1951) for all but the ants; for the latter J have followed Creighton (1950). In each instance bracketted initials identify the collector. CHRYSIDIDAE Chrysis (Chrysogona) perpulchra Cresson. 1 J 1 (PW\Y). I have also taken this chrysid at Woods Hole in July ; the normal host is said to be Scdiphrou, a common wasp of Penikese. Chrysis (Tetrachrysis) coerulans Fabr. 1 J 1 , at flowers of Daucns carota (KWC) ; also common at Woods Hole from June through mid- September. TlPHIIDAE Tiphia intermedia Mall. 1 ?, 4 1 cf at flowers of I Caucus, as well as one female hunting at grassy margin of beach (KWC) ; very common at Woods Hole in July and August. Anoplius (Ar.) relativus (Fox). 2 J 1 J\ at flowers of . Ichillca and Dancits (KWC) ; also taken at Woods Hole in August. Anoplius (Pompilinus) marginatus (Say). 2$$, 2^ at flowers of Dancits (KWC) ; very common at Woods Hole and on Xonamesset and Naushon of the Elizabeth chain from July through mid- September. Anoplius (Lophopompilus) atrox (Dahlbom). 1 $, 1 J 1 at flowers of Daiicus (KWC) ; also taken at Woods Hole and on Xonamesset Island in August and early September. SPHECIDAE (Larrinae) Lyroda subita (Say). 6 5$, 3 J^ on sandy patch of grassy beach at northeastern end of the main body of Penikese (CX ; KAY C ) . One female wasp was captured while dragging a para- lyzed juvenile female .Veinobiiis fasciatns through a patch of of exposed grassroots. Also common on Nonamesset Island in August. Tachysphex tarsatus (Say). 1$ (KWC); also taken at \\oods Mole, Nonamesset Island, and Barnstable dunes in fuly and August. Tachysphex terminatus (Smith). 2$$, 3 g (including 1 mated pair) in company with Lyroda (KWC) ; common at \Voods Hole and on Xonamesset Island (also in the company of Lyroda) in August. 34 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 1953 (Sphecinae) Sphex (Priononyx) pubidorsus (Costa). 1 $, hunting among grassroots in protected hollow (KWC) ; I have also taken this wasp at Barnstable in August. Sphex (Sphex) ichneumoneus (Linn.). 1 5, 2 <$<$ at Daitcus and Nepcta (CX ; KWC") : common everywhere on the Cape in my experience. Podalonia violaceipennis (Lepel.). 1 , 2 J 1 ^ (CN ; HK) ; frequent at Woods Hole July through mid-September. Ammophila kennedyi (Murray). 1 < at flowers of Achillea (KWC). Ammophila placida Smith. 1 $ (CN) ; common at Woods Hole and Nonamesset Island from mid-June through mid- September. Sceliphron caementarium (Drury). 1 $, 2 J\^ at Daucus flowers, and nesting on old buildings and ruins (CN ; KWC) ; abundant at Woods Hole from June through mid-September. (Nyssoninae} Epibembix spinolae (Lepel.). 4$$, 4^^, common on all sandy patches, and at Daitcus and Nepta (CN ; HK ; KWC) ; common at Woods Hole, Nonamesset Island, Barnstable, Prov- incetown, and Acoaxet from July to September. (Philanthlnae) Philanthus gibbosus (Fabr.).- 3 5$ at Daucus flowers (KWC) ; common at Woods Hole through the summer. (Crabroninac} Lestica (Solenius) interrupta (Lepel. et Brullj)- 1 cT at flowers of Daucus (KWC) ; frequent at Woods Hole in July and August. Oxybelus emarginatus Say. 1 $ (KWC) ; also collected at Provincetown, Barnstable, and Nonamesset Island in August, as well as at Woods Hole in July and August. O. quadrinotatus Say. 1 $ (KWC) ; also occurs at Woods Hole in August. It is difficult to guess at how complete this list may be for August's wasps on Penikese. Certainly it is a complete record for every species seen by me on the island, for none was seen that was not captured. But the wind was so strong and per- ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 35 sistent that only larger wasps, or those small ones whose niches included protected hollows, were on the wing. Although the inhabitants of a small island such as Penikese are always of spe- cial interest, a glance over the list of those wasps found produces few surprises, lest it be that so many forms were found in an environment that seems so unpromising. All of the species are known from immediately adjoining localities and states, and the fauna is largely Transitional. The one genuinely surprising record is that of Anoplius ithaca which, on the basis of a very extensive collecting experience and study, had seemed to Evans (1948, 1951 ) to be a wasp of local occurrence, confined to the very special habitat of rocky stream beds (as, for example, along the Westfield River in Hampshire Co., Mass.). Now Penikese lacks streams and running water- ways but, owing to its morainal origin and the persistent harsh- ness of wave and wind action, possesses extensive rocky tracts, especially along its western margins. Perhaps, then, stretches of exposed boulders, scattered rocks and gravels provide Ithaca's special environmental needs. If this be the case, then stream- side habitats would be the most frequent mainland but inland localities of the sort Anopllns ithaca requires, for only along waterways would rocky beds and stretches commonly be found that remain uncovered by soil and organic debris. Along the coast, A. ithaca may be expected to frequent some boulder strewn, stony beaches. LITERATURE CITED COKER, R. E. (editor). 1926. Fauna of Penikese Island, 1923. Biol. Bull. 50: 17-37. COOPER, K. W. 1950. Zethus, Pachodynerus and other southern wasps from Massachusetts (Hymenoptera : Vespoidea; Sphecoidea). Ent. News 61 : 104-105. CREIGHTON, W. S. 1950. The ants of North America. Bull. M. C. Z. 104 : 1-585. EVANS, H. E. 1948. Biological notes on two species of Anoplius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Ent. News 59: 180-184. EVANS, H. E. 1951. A taxonomic study of the nearctic spider wasps belonging to the tribe Pompilini (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part II. Genus Anoplius Dufour. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 76: 207-361. 36 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 1953 FOGG, J. M. 1930. The flora of the Elizabeth Islands, Massachusetts. Rhodora 32: 119-132, 147-161, 167-180, 208-221, 226-258, 263-281. HOLLICK, A. 1901. A reconnoissance of the Elizabeth Islands. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 13 : 387-418. JORDAN, D. S. 1874. The flora of Penikese Island. Ainer. Nat. 8: 193- 197. LEWIS, I. F. 1924. The flora of Penikese, fifty years after. Rhodora 26: 181-195, 211-219, 222-229. MATHER, K. F., R. P. GOLDTHWAIT, and L. R. THIESMEYER. 1942. Pleistocene geology of western Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 53: 1127-1174. MORSE, A. P. 1894. Notes on the Orthoptera of Penikese and Cutty- hunk. Psyche 7: 179-180. MUESEBECK, C. F. W., K. V. KROMBEIX. and II. K. TOWNES. 1951. Hymenoptera of America North of Mexico. Synoptic Catalog. U. S. Dept. Agric., Agric. Monograph No. 2, pp. 1-1420. STURTEVANT, A. H. 1931. Ants collected on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Psyche 38 : 73-79. WHEELER, W. M. 1906. Fauna of New England. 7. List of the Formicidae. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., Occ. Papers 7 : 1-24. WOODWORTH, J. B., and E. WIGGLESWORTH. 1934. Geography and geol- ogy of the region including Cape Cod, the Elizabeth Islands, Nan- tucket, Marthas Vinyard, No Mans Land, and Block Island. Mem. M. C. Z. 52 : 1-xvi, 1-322. Collection and Laboratory Maintenance of Dytiscidae (Coleop.) By EDWARD S. HODGSON, Department of Zoology, Barnard College, Columbia University Certain species of Dytiscidae, notably Laccophilus maculosus Germ., have recently proven to be excellent experimental ani- mals for studies on the physiology of chemoreception (Hodgson, 1951 ; Physiol. Zool. 24: 131-40). The smaller forms such as Laccophilus and Coptotomus can usually be collected in large numbers from grassy banks of permanent ponds as are usually found at fish hatcheries. They are easy to transport alive in water or in containers half filled with wet grass. Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NL\\ S 37 When the beetles are being used in tlie laboratory, it is often desirable to keep large stocks on hand, and due to the canni- balistic habits of the beetles, this poses a considerable problem. The following method has been used with success in our labo- ratory for two years. Aquaria are filled with tap water and bricks placed on the bottoms of the aquaria ; the bricks are stood on edge. The water is kept in motion by bubbling air from a compressed air line or aquarium aeration pump through the wa- ter. When the beetles are introduced into the aquarium, tlu-v cling to the bricks and move about very little. This is an im- portant factor in reducing the mortality rate in stocks over pe- riods of several weeks, since much of the mortality results from chance encounters of swimming beetles. An aquarium holding 40 gallons of water will accommodate about 1000 beetles in this fashion without overcrowding smaller aquaria holding propor- tionately less. With such an arrangement, only about 10' i of the beetles will fall victim to cannibalism each month. Care must be taken to make sure that the water is not moving so rapidly that the beetles cannot reach the surface periodically to replenish their air supplies. In our cultures, wooden floats were provided, which permitted the beetles to dry themselves at in- tervals during feeding. Wire screening must be used over the aquaria to prevent the escape of flying beetles. Meat scraps and fish food ("Tropicala Xo. 2") were fed daily, and the aeration stopped only for a feeding period of one hour. The formation of a surface film is prevented by the aeration and resulting currents of water, and any excess food accumulating on the bottom of the aquarium seems to do no particular harm. The beetles have frequently been observed mating but no larvae have been seen in the cultures ; possibly any larvae which appeared were eaten by the adults. Because of the abundance of the adults, no attempt has been made to find special methods of rearing the beetles through a complete life cycle. 38 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS | Feb., 1953 Two New Species of Milichiidae, with Miscellane- ous Notes on the Family (Diptera) By CURTIS W. SABROSKY, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, Agricultural Research Administration, U. S. Department of Agriculture In a recent study of the dipterous family Milichiidae, two new species have heen recognized and some miscellaneous notes ac- cumulated. Revisionary work is being continued on two large genera, Dcsrnoinetopa and MilicJiiclla, but the notes presented here are not relevant to that study. Eusiphona flava, new species Like the genotype, Eitsiplwna inira Coq., in habitus and struc- tural characters, but predominantly yellow. Female. Yellow to orange-yellow, only the arista, front, upper half or more of occiput, mesonotum except laterally, basal por- tion of disk of scutellum, and metanotum black in ground color ; front densely pollinose and appearing golden yellow from certain aspects ; mesonotum dull, yellowish-gray pollinose with a sug- gestion of three brown stripes, when viewed from behind ; lateral yellow areas of mesonotum include the humeri and notopleural and supra-alar areas. Head in profile as in inira (cf. Curran, 1934, "The Families and Genera of North American Diptera," p. 335, fig. 12), but the proboscis proportionately longer, each section 1.5 times the height of the head ; wing approximately as figured by Curran (I.e., fig. 5)., but the first posterior cell only slightly broadened opposite the hind crossvein, the anterior crossvein directly be- hind the junction of first vein with costa, and thus the penulti- mate section of fourth vein nearly % the length of that of the third vein. Length, 3 mm. Holotype, Kanab, UTAH, Aug.. 17, 1950 (G. F. Knowlton). Type No. 61616 in the U. S. National Museum, deposited through the courtesy of the collector. Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NK\VS 39 No other species of the genus lias been described since Coquil- lett (1897) erected it for a single species, inira. then presumed to belong to the Larvaevoridae (Tachinidae). The genotype is an entirely black fly and thus strikingly contrasted with the new species. Stomosis Melander Stomosis Melander, 1913, Jour. New York Ent. Soc. 21 : 242. Type, Desmometopa lutcola Coquillett (Monobasic.) Siphonomyiella Frey, 1919, Ofvers. finska Vetensk. Soc. Forh. 60A, no. 14, p. 16. Type, Siphonomyiella ruj'nla Frey (Monobasic). New synonymy. The description and the figures of head and wing of nomyiella, described from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, agree com- pletely with the North American Stomosis. I have seen no Brasilian material of the genus, and cannot comment on the status of Stomosis ritjula (Frey) [new combination]. The genotype, luteola (Coq.), was described from Williams, Arizona, has been recorded from Texas (Melander, 1913 ), and is known to me from Lafayette, Indiana, Falls Church and Alexandria, Virginia, and East Lansing, Michigan. At Falls Church, Vir- ginia, April 15, 1951, it was reared from debris in the crotch of a tree (W. W. Wirth). In the U. S. National Museum there is a long series from Higuito, San Mateo, Costa Rica (Pablo Schild), which was apparently correctly determined by J. M. Aldrich as lutcola. Hemeromyia washingtona ( Mel.) Paramadiza wasliiin/tdiia Melander, 1913 (Sept.), Jour. New York Ent. Soc. 21 : 246 (Washington ). Hemeromyia washingtona (Melander) Melander, 1913 (Oct.i, Psyche 20: 169. Hemeromyia iiitcns Melander, 1913 (Oct.), Psyche 20: 169. (Melander's statement that "llcmcrom\ order of The Hon. J. C. Calhoim, Secretary of H'ar, under the command oj Stephen H. Lout/ Major U. S. T. E. (Gary and Lea, Philadelphia, 1S24). pp. 303-305 (Re- printed by LeConte, 1859, in: The complete -n'ritint/s oj Tlionn/s Sa\, Vol. 1, pp. 203-205). An account of the swarming of Ephoron album appears on pp. 114-115 of the same volume. Correct citations were given by Hagen (1861 ) in his Synopsis of the Nenroptera of Xorth America, but apparently starting with Eaton (Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1871 : 8) the citation i- given as Volume 2 of the Western Quarterly Reporter, and dated variously as 1823 or 1824. Eaton (he. eit. ) indicates that he did not see the original of Say's work and apparently has made an error in reading the LeConte reprint. The error has been faithfully repeated by numerous writers since that time. GEORGE F. Emirxns, JR., University of Utah. Pseudocneorrhinus bifasciatus Roelofs Extending Its Range in New Jersey (Col. Curculionidae) This weevil which is the P. setosits of American authors, ac- cording to the Blackwelders' "Fifth Supplement to the Lt-ng Catalogue of Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico" ( 1 C '4S). is extending its range in Xew Jersey. It is listed in the Leng ^ Mutchler "Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, Xorth of Mexico" (1927), from Connecticut and Japan. Introduced from Japan, it was reported from Connecticut in 1 ( )23. It was first noted in Xew lersey at South Orange during September, 46 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS (Feb., 1953 1947, the adults having been taken while feeding on the leaves of privet, mimosa, Japanese barberry, rhododendron and a few other ornamental plants. Shortly afterward it was collected at West Orange, Maplewood, Orange and Newark, all in New Jersey. It has also been reported from New York City. During September, 1952, Mr. Robert J. Sim collected the species at Morrestown, N. J., where it was doing considerable damage to the foliage of azalaes and other shrubs. In spite of its injury to foliage, it does not appear at present to be an insect of prime economic importance. During the thirty years since it was reported from Connecticut, the species has no doubt invaded a larger area of New 7 Jersey than is indicated by the localities mentioned. HARRY B. WEISS. The Lone Star Tick in Staten Island, New York (Acarina: Ixodidae) By JOHN W. H. REHN, First Army Area Medical Laboratory, New York 7, N. Y. The Lone Star Tick. Amblyomum americanum (Linnaeus) is usually considered to breed as far north as southern New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The only records of this species north of this area are either very old, 1740-1830, or clearly represent acci- dental importations. 1 In May, 1952, a partially engorged female Amblyotnma ainericanus was removed from a child at Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, and sent to this laboratory for identification. The child had not been off this island for several months and left the military installation only to go to school. Therefore, the tick was undoubtedly picked up on this island. Investigation failed to recover additional examples. However, it seems prob- able that individuals have been introduced from the south and the species may now be established on Staten Island. 1 BEQUAERT, J. C. 1946. The ticks, or Ixodoiclea, of the northeastern United States and eastern Canada. Entomologica Americana, XXV (M.S.), p. 183. Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL XK\YS 47 Current Entomological Literature Compiled by VENIA T. PHILLIPS, Librarian Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the Academy of Xatural Sciences of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania pertaining to entomology, including all arthropods except Crustacea. Coverage will be world-wide as regards major contributions to systematics as well as for all papers on morphology, physiology, em- bryology, etc. In addition, for species from the Americas and the Pacific (Nearctic, Neotropical and Polynesian regions) all minor contributions to taxonomy, distribution, etc., will also be recorded. This list gives references of the year 1952 unless otherwise noted. Continued papers, with few exceptions, are recorded only at their first installment. For other records of general literature and for economic literature, see the Bibliog- raphy of Agriculture, Washington, and the Review of Applied Entomology, Series A, London. For records of papers on medical entomology see Review of Applied Entomology, Series B. NOTE: The figures within brackets [ ] refer to the journal in which the paper ap- peared, as numbered in the List of periodicals and serials published in our January and June issues. The number of the volume, and in some cases, the part, heft, &c. is followed by a colon (:). References to papers containing new forms or names not so stated in titles are followed by (*); if containing keys are followed by (k); papers pertaining ex- clusively to Neotropical species, and not so indicated in the title, have the symbol (S). Papers published in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS are not listed. GENERAL Bartlett, B. R. and J. C. Ortega. Relation between natural enemies and DDT-induced increases in frosted scale and other pests of walnuts. [76] 45: 783-784. Beard, E. The early-American silkworm. [Frontiers] 17: 35-38, 62, ill. Belkin, J. N. and W. A. McDonald. Prepar- ing Lepidoptera for class study. [85] 6: 61-63, ill. Box, H. E. Informe preliminar sobre los taladradores de la cana de azucar (Diatraea spp.) en Venezuela. [Bol. tec. Div. Ent., Inst. Nac. de Agr. Venezuela] 2: 1-72, ill. Brown, F. M. Statistics and taxonomy again. |85] 6: 67. Brues, C. T. Some evolutionary features inherent in the insect faunas of the tropics. [Quart. I., Fla. Acad. Sci.] 15: 149-154. Campbell, W. V. and R. E. Hutchins. Toxicity of insecticides to some predaceous insects on cotton. [76 1 45 : 786-789, 828-833. Corbet, P. S. (See Smaller orders.) Flanders, S. E. A method for transferring infestations of purple scale. [76] 45: 891. Fleming, W. E., H. W. Allen and F. W. Poos. Traber Norman Dobbins, 1896-1952. 1 76] 45: 903. (Obit.) Forbes, W. T. M. Footnote to Brown's Statistics. [85] 6: 67. Harris, L. Henry \Y. Eustis. [85] 6: 77. (Obit.) Jackson, W. B. Population of the w r ood-mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) subjected to the application of D.D.T. and parathion. [49] 22: 259-81. Keilbach, R. Schalenasymmetrien bei rezenten und fossi- len Ostrakoden und das Alter der asymmetrischen Fliigel- lage bei Insekten. [160] 149: 147-57. Klots, A. B.- Marguerite S. Forsyth. [85] 6: 76-77. (Obit.) Knowlton, 48 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 1953 G. F. Range entomology. | Utah Agr. Expt. Sta. Mimeo. Sheet] 391 : 1-3. Linsley", E. G., J. W. MacSwain and R. F. Smith. Outline for ecological life histories of solitary and semi-social bees. [50] 33: 558-567. Ludwig, A. Die Blattminen des Siegerlandes mid der angrenzenden gebiete. (Includes classified list of miners and a long list of host plants.) [Abhand. Landesmuseum f. Naturk. zu Minister in Westfalen | 15. heft 2. 48 pp. McGregor, S. E. and T. F. Buehrer. A nectarometer. [76] 45 : 895. Martorell, L. F. and J. Adsuar. Insects associated with papaya virus dis- eases in the Antilles and Florida. [76] 45: 863-869. R., W. A. Obituary. Keith Collingwoocl McKeown. [Aust. Mus. Mag.] 10:"371. Roan, C. C. Tagging oriental fruit flies with radioactive phosphorus for field-movement stud- ies. [76] 45 : 826-828. Rosine, W. N. Qualitative distri- bution of aquatic invertebrates among the plants in Muskee Lake. Col. [Jr. Col.-Wyo. Acad. Sci.] 4: 92 (Abstract). Schwenke, W. (See Lepidoptera.) Shoumatoff, N. Some statistical concepts in taxonomy. [85] 6: 64-66. Smith, M. V. and G. F. Townsend. A method of measuring polli- nator populations on field crops. [43] 84: 314316, ill. Stark, R. W. Analysis of a population sampling method for the lodgepole needle miner in Canadian Rocky Moun- tain parks. [43] 84: 316-321. Suomalainen, E. Harry Federley (1879-1951). [85] 6: 57-60. (Obit., port., bibl.) Swenson, L. E. Cleaning skeletal material with meal worms. | Jr. Col.-Wyo. Acad. Sci.] 4: 103. (Abstract.) Taylor, L." F., J. W. Apple and K. C. Berger. (See Anat- omy.) Vandoni, C. Augusto Molinar (1896-1952). [Na- tura, Milan] 43: 39-44. (Obit., port.) Z., E. Karl Esche- rich, 1871-1951. [Graellsia] 8: 113-115, 1950. (Obit., port.) ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, MEDICAL Applegarth, A. G. (See Arachnida.) Audy, J. R. (See Arachnida.) Barnes, H. F. Studies of fluctuations in insect populations. XII. [77] 39: 370-73. Id. XIII. Ibid. 374-78. Bartlett, B. R. and J. C. Ortega. (See General.) Beall, G. (See Lepidoptera.) Benson, A. Distribution of certain riffle insects in a foothills stream with respect to current velocity. [Jr. Col.-Wyo. Acad. Sci.] 4: 93-94 (Abstract). Brian, A. D. (See Hymenoptera.) Bruneau de Mire, P. (See Or- thoptera.) Campbell, W. V. and R. E. Hutchins. (See General.) Clark, A. M. and C. J. Mitchell. Effects of x-rays upon haploid and diploid embryos of Habrobracon. Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 4" [30| 103: 107-177. Cumber, R. A. (See Hemiptera.) Dethier, V. G. Adaptation to chemical stimulation of the tarsal receptors of the blowfly. [30] 103: 178-89. Floch, H. and E. Abonnenc. (See Diptera.) Flores, H. (See Lepidoptera.) Eraser, F. C. Methods of exophytic ovi- position in Odonata. [60] 88: 261-262. Fritsch, H. Yer- such zur Analyse des Angriffspunktes kontaktinsektizider Stoffe. [Biol. Zentralbl.] 71: 512-28. Gisin, G. (See Smaller orders.) Goodwin, T. W. The biochemistry of locust pigmentation. [Biol. Reviews] 27: 439-460. ill. Grindley, D. N. The composition of the body fat of small green chironomids. |77] 29: 440-44. Haas, A. Die Man- dibledriise als Duftorgan bei einigen Hymenopteren. [100] 39:484. Helwig, E. R. (See Orthoptera. ) Herold, W.- Beobachtungen uber die Arbeitsleistuug einiger Arbeiter von Yespa germanica F. Dolichovespula germanica (F.) (Hym, Vespidae). [Biol. Zentralbl.] 71: 461-69. Howe, R. W.---M iscellaneous experiments with grain weevils. [ Re- si>tance of adults to starvation.] [60] 88: 252-255. Hrob, H. Entwicklungsphysiologische Untersuchungen an den Speicheldrusen. clem Darmtraktus und den Tmaginal- .scheiben einer Letalrasse dgl) von Drosophila melano- gaster. [Z. Yererbungslehre] 84: 320-60. Hughes, G. M.- Differential effects of direct current on insect ganglia. [77] 29: 387-401. lilies, J. (See Smaller orders.)' Jekot, C. B. Lethal mutations produced in Drosophila melanogaster bv the auxin, gamma-indole-3-n-butyric acid. [jr. Col.- Wyo. Acad. Sci.] 4: 100 (Abstract). Jones, G. D. G. The responses of the honey bee to repellent chemicals. [77] 29: 372-86. Keler, S. v. Ueber die Wachstums-Progression bei Pseudomenopon rowanae Keler. (Mallophaga). [28] 2: 113-19. Lippert, W. und K. Gentil. Elektronenmikro- scopische Studien iiber micellare Strukturen bei Schmetter- lingsschuppen vom Morpho-Typ. [Z. AYiss. Mikroscop.] ol : 95-100. Lloyd, D. C. (See Hemiptera.) Longanecker, D. S. and A. L. Burroughs. Sylvatic plague studies. IX. Studies of the microclimate of the California ground squirrel burrow and its relation to seasonal changes in the flea popu- lation. [50] 33: 488-499. ill. Liischer! M. rntersuduin- gen iiber das individuelle Wachstum bei der Termite Kalo- termes flavicollis Fal>r. (Ein Beitrag xum Ka>tenbilduugs- problem.) | Biol. Zentralbl. | 71: 529-43. McLeod, J. H. and D. A. Chant. (See Orthoptera). Pellegrino, J. Ob- servac/'es sobre a resistencia do Triatoma infestans ao 50 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb.. 1953 jejum. [117] 12: 317-20. Pendergrast, J. G. (See Hemip- tera.) Pipkin, S. B. Seasonal fluctuations in Drosophila populations at different altitudes in the Lebanon Moun- tains. [Z. Vererbungslehre] 84: 270-305. Pschorn- Walcher, H. (See Arachnida.) Richards, A. G. Studies in arthropod cuticle. VIII. The antennal cuticle of honey- bees, with particular reference to the sense plates. [30] 103: 201-25. Rietschel, P. Ueber Beinautotomie bei der Blattlaus Drepanosiphon (Hemip.). [Biol. Zentralbl.] 71: 544_50, ill. Riha, G. (See Arachnida.) Sacktor, B. and D. Bodenstein. Cytochrome C oxidase activity of various tissues of the American cockroach Periplaneta americana (L.). [75] 40: 157-61. Sarles, M. P. and W. B. Vander- grift. Chronic oral toxicity and related studies on animals with the insecticide and pyrethrum synergist piperonyl butoxide. [10] 1: 862-83. Shaw, S. (See Coleoptera.) Shull, E. M. Migration of Catopsilia butterflies in India. [85] 6: 68-69. Smith, C. N., M. M. Cole, G. W. Lloyd and A. Selhime. Mosquito-repellent mixtures. [76] 45: 805- 809. Taylor, L. F., J. W. Apple and K. C. Berger. Re- sponse of certain insects to plants grown on varying fertility levels. [76] 45: 843-848. Vallentyne, J. R.' Insect re- moval of nitrogen and phosphorus compounds from lakes. [50] 33: 573-577. Willis, E. R. and L. M. Roth. Reac- tions of Aedes aegypti (L.) to carbon dioxide. [78] 121 : 149-80. Wilson, C. and Ralph L. Davis. Insect problems that develop on alfalfa following treatment with certain insecticides. [106] 52: 343-348. Woodroffe, G. E. (See Hemiptera.) ARACHNIDA AND MYRIOPODA Applegarth, A. G. -The anatomy of the cephalic region of a centipede Pseu- dolithobius megaloporus (Stuxberg) (Chilopoda). [90] 17: 127-171. ill. Audy, J. R. Trombiculid mites infesting bats in Malaya, with descriptions of three new species. [Bull. Raffles Mus.] 24: 132-159, ill. (K). Brown, J. R. C. -The feeding organs of the adult of the common "chigger." [79] 91: 15-51 (Trombicula alfreddugesi). Chamberlin, R. V. and Y. M. Wang. Some records and descriptions of chilopods from Japan and other oriental areas. [31] 65: 177-188. Chamberlin, R. V. Two Oregon millipeds of the. order Chordeumida. [97] no. 113. 3 pp.. ill. Cunliffe, F. -Biology of the cockroach parasite, Pimpeliaphilus poda- polipophagus Tragardh, with a discussion of the genera Pimeliaphilus and Hirstiella (Acarina, Pterygosomidae) . KXTOMOLOC.ICAI. XK\\ S 51 [56] 54: 153-169, ill. (*). Jeekel, C._A. W. Scolopen- dridae (Chilopoda) from Surinam. [57] 14, no. 329, p. 175. Levitt, V. Line fishing for moths (by spiders). [Aust. Mus. Mag.] 10: 361-365, ill. Pschorn-Walcher, H.- Zur biologic und systematik terricoler milben (I) Die os- talpinen arten der gattung Liacarus Mich. (Oribatei). [34] 2: 177-182. ill., 1951 (*K). Riha, G. Zur okologie der oribatiden in kalksteinboden (Acarina). [158] 80: 407-450, ill., 1951. Stahnke, H. L. Some scorpion anomalies. [Tr. Col.-Wyo. Sci.] 4: 104 (Abstract). Strandtmann, R. W.- The mesostigmatic nasal mites of birds. III. New species of Rhinoecius from owls (Acarina, Rhinonyssidae). [56] 54: 205-214, ill. Viets, K. Nachtrage zu "Die meeres- milben (Halacaridae, Acari) der fauna Antarctica." [Fur- ther zool. results, Swedish Antarctic Exped., 1901-1903] 4. no. 10, 11 pp., ill. (*). SMALLER ORDERS Benson, A. (See Anatomy, i Buchholz, K.-F. liber den hiiutungsort der larven von Aeschna cyanea Miill. (Odonata). |34] 2: 184, 1951. Cor- bet, P. S. An adult population study of Pyrrhosoma nymphula (Sulzer) (Odonata: Coenagrionidae). [J. Anim. Ecol.] 21 : 206-222. Fraser, F. C. (See Anatomy.) Gisin, G. Oekologische studien iiber die collembolen des blatt- komposts. [120] 59: 543-578. Holland, G. P. Descrip- tions of fleas from northern Canada (Siphonaptera). [43] 84: 297-308, ill. (*). Hood, J. D. Brasilian Thysanoptera. III. [31] 65: 141-176 (*). A new Frankliniella injurious to banana (Thysanoptera. Thripidae). |31] 65: 137-140. ill. Hopkins, G. H. E. Notes on synonymy in Siphonap- tera. [152] 42: 363-365. lilies, J. Eine kocherfliege im zweistockigen haus (Trichoptera ). [Mikrokosmos] 42: 1-3, ill. Keler, S. v. (See Anatomy.) Longanecker, D. S. and A. L. Burroughs. (See Anatomy.) Liischer, M. Isoptera. (See Anatomy.) ORTHOPTERA Alexander, G. The Orthoptera of Dinosaur National Monument. [Jr. Col.-Wyo. Acad. Sci.] 4: 101-102 (Abstract). Bruneau de Mire, P. Observations sur le comportement de Schistocerca Gregaria Ph. solitaria. [105 | : 3. p. 48-54. Chopard, L. Orthopteroides. (Faune de France, v. 56, 359 pp., ill.. Paris. P. Lechavelier, 1952.) (Rev. by G. R. in [138] 57: 112.) Fraser, W. R. Stridula- tion by a female Chortippus (Stauroderus) (Acrididae). [142] 4: 84. Goodwin, T. W. (See Anatomy.) Grasse, P. -P. Determinisme de la pigmentation chez Acrida turrita 52 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 1953 L. [2] 235: 1054-1055. Helwig, E. R. Chromosomal variation correlated with geographical distribution in Tri- merotropis suffusa. [Jr. Colorado-Wyo. Acad. Sci.] 4: 91 (Abstract). Keilbach, R. Blattidae. (See General.) Mc- Leod, J. H. and D. A. Chant. Notes on the parasitism and food habits of the European earwig, Forficula auricularia L. [43] 84: 343-345. HEMIPTERA Beirne, B. P. Canadian species of Oro- castus and Auridius (Cicadellidae). [43] 84: 352-355 (*). Beirne, B. P. A new species of Scaphytopius (Cloantha- nus), with a key to the Canadian species (Cicadellidae). [43] 84: 311-313. ill. Borner, C. Die Blattlausgattungen Myzus und Myzodes. [28] 2 : 122-27. Carvahlo, J. C. M.- Neotropical Miridae. LVI. Description of three new genera and five new species from Brazil and British Honduras. [117] 12: 265-72. Chandler, S. C. Life history and con- trol of pecan spittlebug in Illinois (Homoptera). |76] 45: 890. Cumber, R. A. Notes on the biology of Melampsalta cruentata Fabricius (Cicididae), with special reference to the nymphal stages. [126] 103: 219-238, ill. De Carlo, J. A. Xepidos de America (Nepidae). [38] 1: 385-421, ill.. 1951 (*K). Fennah, R. G. On the classification of the Tettigometridae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). | 126] 103: 239-255, ill. (*K). Flanders, S. E. (See General.) Ger- hardt, P. D. and D. L. Lindgren. Dictyospermum scale in California. [76] 45: 874-877. Heslop-Harrison, G. The genus Rhinocola Forster and associated genera of the Aphalarinae. I. [19] 5 (s.12) : 957-974. Kormilev, N. A. Phymatidae Argentinas, con observaciones sobre Phyma- tidae en general. [38] 2: 45-110, ill.. 1951 (*K). Lambers, H. R. Ueber Myzus persicae Sulzer. [28] 2: 119-121. Lloyd, D. C. Parthenogenesis in the mealybug, Phena- coccus solani Ferris. [43] 84: 308-310. Pellegrino, J.- (See Anatomy.) Pendergrast, J. G. Studies on the biol- ogy of pentatomid bugs of the genus Rhopalimorpha Dallas. [Trans. Roy. Soc. N. Z.] 80: 143-153. ill. Rietschel, P.- (See Anatomy.) Slater, J. A. and N. T. Davis. The scien- tific name of the tarnished plant bug (Miridae). [56] 54: 194-198, ill. Woodroffe, G. E. A note on the food plants of Coriomeris denticulatus (Scop.) (Coreidae). [60] 88: 255. LEPIDOPTERA Beall, G. Migration of the monarch butterfly during the winter. [85] 6: 69-70. Beard, E.- (See General.) Belkin, J. N. and W. A. McDonald. (See lxiv| K.XTOMOLOGICAI. NEWS 53 General.) Box, H. E. (See General.) Brown, F. M. (See General.) Flores, H. Acerca cle la atraccion sexual a distancia en los lepidopteros. [Graellsia] 8: 19-22, 1950. Gray, P. H. H. The weights of fresh and dried butterflies. | 85 | 6: 73. Kistner, D. H. Notes on collecting Polygonia. [85] 6: 73. Levitt, V. (See Araclmida.) Ludwig, A. (See General.) Mather, B. The names of certain butter- flies of the eastern United States. |85] 6: 74-76. Orfila, R. N. Cambios nomenclatoriales en Nymphalidae. |132| 154: 102-104 (*). Schwenke, W. Untersuchungen xuin Massenwechsel der Kiefernspanner Bupalus piniarius L. und Semiothesa liturata Cl. auf vergleichend-biozonotischer Grundlage. [28] 2: 1-55. Shoumatoff, N. (See General.) Shull, E. M. (See Anatomy.) Stark, R. W. (See Gen- eral.) Steinhaus, E. A. The susceptibility of two species of Colias to the same virus (Papilionidae). [76] 45: 897- 899. Travassos, L. Contribuiqao ao conhecimento dos Arctiidae. XXIX. Genero Nelphe H. Schaeffer, 1858. | 1 17] 12: 325-30, ill. Vazquez, G. L. Observaciones sobre Pieridos mexicanos con descripciones formas nuevas. |8S| 22:533-535, 1951. DIPTERA Barbier, J. Introduction en France d'un diptere stratiomyide americain. [138] 57: 108. Castro, M. y M. Bressanello. Revision de las especies de Taenio- rhynchus (Rhynchotaenia) (Culicidae). [117] 12: 229-46. Floch, H. and E. Abonnenc. Dipteres phlebotomes de la Guyane et des Antilles Francaises. [63] 14: 1-207. ill. (K). Fox, I. Light trap studies on Culicoides in Puerto Rico (Ceratopogonidae). [76] 45: 888-889. Grandley, D. N.- ( See Anatomy.) Hoff, C. C. Mosquitoes of dry farming and irrigated areas of southeastern Colorado and north- eastern New Mexico. |Jr. Col.-Wyo. Acad. Sci. | 4: 100- 101 (Abstract). Jekot, C. B. (See Anatomy.) Ludwig, A. (See General.) Nelson, W. A. A note on the pres- ence of first-stage larvae of Gasterophilus intestinalis (De- Geer) in the mouth of the horse. [43] 84: 356. Roan, C. C. (See General.) Roth, L. M. and E. R. Willis. Xotes on three gvnandromorphs of Aedes ac-gypti (L.) (Culicidae). [56 1 54": 189-193, ill. Silva, G. A. da e S. J. de Oliveira.- Sobre um Agromyzidae cujas larvas minam folhas de Tra- poeiraba (Commelinaceae). [117] 12: 293-99. Smith, C. N., M. M. Cole, G. W. Lloyd and A. Selhime. (See Anat- omy.) Smith, K. G. V. Observations on the prey and predaceous habits of various Kmpididae. [142] 4: 90-93. 54 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 1953 Stabler, R. M. and R. M. Fox. A new nycteribiid from a Colorado bat. [Jr. Col.-VVyo. Acad. Sci.] 4: 102 (Abstract). Willis and Roth.- (See Anatomy.) COLEOPTERA Barr, W. F. A new species of Tri- chodes from southern Oregon (Cleridae). [56] 54: 186-188. Brown, W. J. Some species of Phytophaga. [43] 84: 335- 342 (*). Howe, R. W. (See Anatomy.) Knull, J. N.- New species of North American Buprestidae. [106] 52: 349_352, ill. Two new species of North American Brachys (Buprestidae). [106] 52: 358-359, ill. Linsley, E. G., J. W. MacSwain and R. F. Smith. The life history and development of Rhipiphorus smithi with notes on their phylogenetic significance (Rhipiphoridae) . [42] 9 (4) : 291-314, ill. Ludwig, A. (See General.) Shaw, S. Some records of Laboulbeniales (Fungi) on Coleoptera. [142] 4: 116-117. Swenson, L. E. (See General.) HYMENOPTERA Bohart, G. E. and G. F. Knowlton. Yearly fluctuations of Bombus morrisoni at Fredonia, Arizona (Bombidae). [76] 45: 890-891. Brian, A. D.- Division of labour and foraging in Bombus agrorum Fabr. [J. Anim. Ecol.] 21 : 223-240. Cooper, K. W. A remark- able new species and subgenus of chrysid wasp from North America, with notes on related forms (Chrysididae). [9] 78: 137-148, ill. Grant, H. J. Some morphological aspects of the larva of Myrmica brevinodis sulcinodoides (Formi- ciclae). [Tr. Col.-Wyo. Acad. Sci.] 4: 103 (Abstract). Gregg, R. E. The ants of Colorado a progress report. [Jr. Col.-Wyo. Acad. Sci.] 4: 102 (Abstract). Gunn, W. B. and C. C. Hoff. The altitudinal distribution of ants in the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico. [Jr. Col.-Wyo. Acad. Sci.] 4: 102 (Abstract). Herold, W. (See Anatomy.) Jones, G. D. G. (See Anatomy.) Krombein, K. V. Pre- liminary annotated list of the wasps of Lost River State Park, West Virginia, with descriptions of new species and biological notes (Aculeata). [56] 54: 175-184. Linsley, E. G., J. W. MacSwain and R. F. Smith. The bionomics of Diadasia consociata Timberlake and some biological rela- tionships of Emphorine and Anthophorine bees (Anthoph.). [42] 9 (3) : 267-90. Linsley, E. G., J. W. MacSwain and R. F. Smith. (See General.) Ludwig, A. (See General.) Mickel, C. E. The Mutillidae (Wasps) of British Guiana. [154] 37: 105-150, ill. (*K). Schuster, R. M. Notes on neotropical Mutillidae. IV. Synonymy and distribution of Hoplocrates, with descriptions of new forms. [56] 54: Lxiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NK\\ S 169-174. Stephen, W. P. A new name for Colletes al- bescens Nosk. (Apoidea). [43] 84: 355. Timberlake, P. H. New records of Perdita from the eastern United States (Apoidea). [56] 54: 199-204. Walkley, L. M. An un- usual aulacine from Xew Mexico (Gasteruptiidae). |56| 54: 185-186. Weld, L. H. Cynipoidea (Hym.) 1905-1950. 350 pp. 1952. Privatelv processed. For sale by the author, 6613 X. Washington Blvd.. Arlington, Ya. $5.00. (Rev. by O. Peck in [43] 84: 323.) FLEAS, FLUKES, AND CUCKOOS. A study of bird parasites. By Miriam Rothschild and Theresa Clay, xiv + 304 pp., 99 black and white photographs, 4 maps and 22 drawings. The Philosophical Library. Inc.. Xew York 16, X. Y. 1952. Price $8.75. This is an outstanding book dealing with the natural history of the parasites of birds. It is written by an authority on bird fleas and an authority on the feather lice, but includes an ac- count of all bird parasites : insects, mites, worms, microorgan- isms, and the skuas and cuckoos. 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Because WARD'S has long set the standard of entomological supply, you may depend on the quality of the aids available for all your needs. Send for free catalog of Entomological Supplies and Equipment to Department E 12. W A DIVC Natural Science Establishment, Inc. If Hllll O Se* 3 has shown that an abdominal shell of integu- ment from which all internal organs have been removed can com- plete development to a normal-appearing adult abdomen pro- vided that the appropriate endocrine glands are implanted into it. In other words, the pupal epidermis plus its associated somatic musculature is fully capable of forming the adult skin and scales except for needing whatever is supplied by the hormones. Per- haps the hormones supply only a stimulus to develop, perhaps they supply some necessary chemicals for the development (Wil- liams has shown that the hormones influence re-establishment of the cytochrome enzyme system but whether or not these particu- lar enzymes play an important direct role in differentiation of the integument is unknown). Whatever the endocrines supply, this plus the epidermis is adequate for adult development in- nervation and the presence of more muscles and other internal organs are needed to make a complete moth but not to make a complete moth's skin. The integument is thus shown to be an amazingly competent and independent organ system. Surgical operations such as are needed for obtaining the pre- ceding data automatically involve injury comparable to the in- jury referred to in the first paragraph. Perhaps it is not sur- prising, then, that differentiation of an isolated abdominal integu- ment does not proceed until after healing of the wounds." In other words, healing comes first whenever the injury is extensive and takes precedence over phenomena such as water absorption and differentiation (metamorphosis). 2 WILLIAMS, C. M. Biol. Bull., 93: 89-98. 1947. 3 WILLIAMS, C. M. Growth Symp., 12: 61-74. 1948. Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 75 More recently, SUSSMAN 4 found in the course of injection experiments that perforation of the integument of a cecropia pupa by a hypodermic needle caused an immediate jump in oxygen consumption (30%) and that the increased rate was maintained for several days. It is not known whether this great increase in respiration is due to the whole animal or to the integument alone. Be that as it may, obviously a small injury to the integument can call forth a large and lasting response expressed as an al- tered metabolic rate. However, this particular response does not seem to be a general phenomenon because no such increased oxygen consumption was found in fly larvae (Phormia) injected by BUCK, KEISTER, and POSNER 5 or in beemoth pupae (Gallcria) injected by Mr. JOHN HERON in this laboratory. 6 Older and therefore more generally known is the fact that specific pattern determination is at least largely under control of the individual epidermal cells. It was shown many years ago that the entire cuticle is capable of being sclerotized, and, ac- cordingly, that the sclerotization pattern must be somehow con-' trolled by the immediately underlying epidermal cells. 7 Re- cently it has been shown that this control is accomplished by the local passing out into the cuticle of substrate for sclerotization only in those areas that are to be sclerotized. 8 ' 9 In wound heal- ing the nature of the regenerating integument has also been shown to be controlled by the nature of the cells that are doing the healing. 10 In effect, these data simply push the basic devel- opmental problem back one step ; namely, to the question of why certain epidermal cells become determined to do one thing in de- velopment while nearby cells become determined to do something else. On this problem little progress has been made but the * SUSSMAN, A. S. Biol. Bull, 102: 39-47. 1952. 5 BUCK, J. B., M. L. KEISTER, and I. POSNER. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Amer., 45 : 369-384. 1952. 6 HERON, J. Unpublished thesis, Univ. Minnesota. 1949. 7 RICHARDS, A. G. The Integument of Arthropods. Univ. Minnesota Press. 1951. s RICHARDS, A. G. Biol. Bull., 103 : 201-225. 1952. 9 DENNELL, R. and MALEK. Nature (in press). 10 WIGGLESWORTH, V. B. J. Exp. Biol, 14: 364-381. 1937. 76 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 1953 importance of the individual epidermal cells in the process seems apparent. No novelty is involved in saying that the integument is an im- portant organ system of insects and other arthropods. Obviously it conditions most exchanges with the environment (notably wa- ter loss), and mosaics and gynandromorphs long since demon- strated that there must be a large degree of autonomy in its de- velopment. Novel are the facts that the epidermis can condi- tion such seemingly over-all processes as oxygen consumption and the hygroscopic uptake of water, that wound healing takes precedence over the uptake of water and over differentiation, and that the individual cells of the general epidermis have so much individuality. A. GLENN RICHARDS. Current Entomological Literature Compiled by VENIA T. PHILLIPS, Librarian Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania pertaining to entomology, including all arthropods except Crustacea. Coverage will be world-wide as regards major contributions to systematics as well as for all papers on morphology, physiology, em- bryology, etc. In addition, for species from the Americas and the Pacific (Nearctic, Neotropical and Polynesian regions) all minor contributions to taxonomy, distribution, etc., will also be recorded. This list gives references of the year 1952 unless otherwise noted. Continued papers, with few exceptions, are recorded only at their first installment. For other records of general literature and for economic literature, see the Bibliog- raphy of Agriculture, Washington, and the Review of Applied Entomology, Series A, London. For records of papers on medical entomology see Review of Applied Entomology, Series B. NOTE: The figures within brackets [ ] refer to the journal in vyhich the paper ap- peared, as numbered in the List of periodicals and serials published in our January and June issues. The number of the volume, and in some cases, the part, heft, &c. is followed by a colon (:). References to papers containing new forms or names not so stated in titles are followed by (*); if containing keys are followed by (k); papers pertaining ex- clusively to Neotropical species, and not so indicated in the title, have the symbol (S). Papers published in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS are not listed. GENERAL Aellen, V. La faune de la grotte de Moron (Jura Suisse). [Bull. Soc. Neuchatel. Sci. Nat.] 75 : 139-51, ill. Barnes, W. B. Zoogeographic regions of Indiana. [12] 48: 694-99, map. Bishopp, F. C., H. H. Stage and H. Sellers. World wide mosquito work in 1951. [Proc. N. Y. Mosq. Ext. Assn.] 1952: 8-34. Bogush, P. P. Pri- menenie svetovykh samolovob kak metod izucheniia dina- Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 77 miki chislennosti nasekomykh. [Ent. Obozrenie] 31 : 609 28, ill., 1951. Brims, H. Die rote waldameise im einsatz gegen forstschadlinge (Formicidae). [Kosmos] 48: 563- 67, ill. \Yarn- und tarntrachten im tierreich. 76 pp., ill., Kosmos, Stuttgart. Chisholm, A. H. Strange relations of birds and insects. [Nature Mag.] 45: 526-28, 550, ill. Conci, C. Le Arene Candida N. 34 Li. Morfologia e fauna. (Cave fauna.) [Doriana] 1, no. 24, 12 pp. Dehalu, M. and J. Leclercq. Application des series logarithmiques cle Fisher-Williams a la classification des hymenopteres cra- broniens. [Ann. Soc. Roy. Zool. Belg.] 82: 67-82, 1951. D'Erasmo, G. Le date di pubblicazione della "Fauna del Regno di Napoli" di Oronzio Gabriele Costa e di Achille Costa. [Rend. Accad. Sci. Fisiche e Mat.] ser. 4, v. 16: 14-36, 1949. Fenton, F. A. and R. G. Dahms. Attempts at controlling the greenbug by the importation and release of lady beetles in Oklahoma. [Proc. Okla. Acad. Sci.] 32: 49-51. Freeman, T. N. Some problems of insect biology in the Canadian Arctic. [Arctic] 5: 175-77. Howell, D. E. Museum insect pest control with newer insecticides. [Proc. Okla. Acad. Sci.] 32: 31-3, 1951. Kullenberg, B.- Recherches sur la biologic florale des Ophrys. [Bull. Soc. d'Hist. Nat. 1'Afrique du Nord] 43: 53-63.^ (Orchid that mimics bee.) Nissen, C. Dr. Friedrich Ohaus (1864- 1946) ; a bibliography of his entomological papers. [J. Soc. Bibl. Nat. Hist.] 2: 400-6. Philip, C. B. Notes on tabanid flies and other victims caught by the carnivorous plant, Sarracenia flava. [64] 35: 151-55. Rothschild, M. and T. Clay. Fleas, flukes and cuckoos. Philosophical Library, N. Y. $8.75. xiv, 304 pp.. ill. (Rev. by G. S. Tullock in [36] 47: 137.) Smith, H. M. Definition of species. [Tur- tox News] 30: 110-12. BIOGRAPHIES, OBITUARIES Kinnmark, Folke, 1899-1951. (Obit, with port.), by C. H. Lindroth in [108] 17: 105-6. Krogerus, Rolf. (Biogr. with port.), by C. H. Lindroth in [10SJ 17: 98-99. Nordstrom, Frithiof. (Biogr. and port.), by K. Ander in [108] 17: 97. Sjostedt, Yngve, 1866-1948. (Obit, with port.), by R. Malaise in [108] 17: 103-4. Tragardh, Ivar, 1878-1951. (Obit, with port.), by O. Ahlberg in [108] 17: 100-2. Zakhvitkin, Aleksel Alek- seevich, 1906-1951. (Obit, with bibl. and port.), by K. N. Pavlovskii in [Ent. Obozrenie] 31: 629-33, 1951. ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, MEDICAL Baker, W. K. and C. W. Edington. The induction of translocations 78 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 1953 and recessive lethals in Drosophila under various oxygen concentrations. [Genetics] 37: 665-77. Berger, L. A. Remarques sur le dimorphisme saisonnier des lepidopteres du Congo Beige. [Ann. Soc. Roy. Zool. Belg.] 82: 19-22, 1951. Chumakova-Safronovich, B. M. Vliianie pitaniia na sozrevanie nasekomykh. [Ent. Obozrenie] 31: 336-48, ill., 1951. Danielevskii, A. S. Ob usloviiakh mnogoletnei dia- pauzy u cheshuekrylykh (Coccidae). [Ent. Obozrenie] 31 : 386-92, 1951. DeFalco, R. V. Serological identification of mosquito blood meals. [Proc. N. J. Mosq. Ext. Assn.] 1952: 168-69. Defretin, R. Presence possible de poly- saccharides au niveau des dictyosomes dans la glande sali- vaire de la larve de chironome. [Compt. rend. Soc. Biol. Paris] 146: 1118-19. Defretin, R. Sur la secretion sali- vaire de la larve de chironome et quelques reactions cotn- binees des polysaccharides. Presence de phosphatase alca- line. [Compt. rend. Soc. Biol. Paris] 146: 1115-17. Dob- zhansky, T., B. and N. Spassky. A comparative study of mutation rates in two ecologically diverse species of Dro- sophila. [Genetics] 37: 650-64. Edel'man, N. M. Vliianie nizkikh temperatur na zhukov iz semeistva chernotelok (Tenebrionidae). [Ent. Obozrenie] 31 : 374-85, 1951. Gaul, A. T. Additions to vespine biology X : Foraging and chemotaxis. [36] 47: 138-40. Kozhanchikov, I. V. Pish- chevaia spetsializatsiia i znachenie ee v zhizni nasekomykh. [Ent. Obozrenie] 31 : 323-35, 1951. Lucker, J. I. and M. P. Sause. The occurrence of demodectic mites, Demodex folliculorum, in the internal tissues and organs of the dog. [N. Amer. Veterinarian] 33: 787-96, ill. McClelland, R. B. and F. E. McClelland, Jr. Pneumonyssus caninum in a dog in Western New York (Acarina). [Cornell Vet.] 42: 337-38, ill. Mercer, E. H. and M. F. Day. The fine struc- ture of the peritrophic membranes of certain insects. [30] 103 : 384-94, ill. Peacock, A. D. Some problems of parthe- nogenesis. [Advancement of Sci.] 9: 134-48. Power, M. E. A quantitative study of the growth of the central ner- vous system of a holometabolous insect, Drosophila melano- gaster. [79] 91: 389-411. Proctor, N. K The effects of calcium on isolated arthropod muscles. [30] 103: 421-32. Reeves, W. C. and W. McD. Hammon. California en- cephalitis virus, a newly described agent. III. Mosquito infection and transmission. [J. Immunology] 69: 511-14. Rizki, M. T. M. Ontogenetic distribution of genetic lethal- ity in Drosophila. [78] 121 : 327-50. Shapiro, I. D. Pol' pitaiushchikh rastenii v biologii krestotsvetnykh klopov Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 79 roda Eurydema Lap. (Pentatomidae). [Ent. Obozrenie] 31 : 361-73, ill, 1951. Shteinberg, D. M. Morfogenetiches- kie osnovy raschlenennosti konechnostei nasekomykh. [Ent. Obozrenie] 31 : 450-62, ill., 1951. Tamino, G. Osser- vazioni sulle caratteristiche aerodinamiche dei ditteri e sul volo degli insetti. [Arch. Zool. Ital.] 36: 217-51, ill., 1951. Tropin, I. V. Kormovye rasteniia i morfologicheskaia kharakteristika sosnovogoklopa Aradus cinnamomeus Panz. [Ent. Obozrenie] 31 : 349-60, ill., 1951. Zumpt, F. Milben in der haut des menschen (Acarina). [Mikrokosmos] 42: 35-8, ill. ARACHNIDA AND MYRIOPODA Alfeev, N. I. Ob izmeniaemosti metamorfoza u iksodobykh kleshchei (Aca- rina). [Ent. Obozrenie] 31: 398-403/1951. Braun, R.- "Maserung" von wanden durch spinnen. [Natur u. Volk] 82: 230-3, ill. Conci, C. (See General.) Crowell, R. M. New records of rheophilic water-mites from northwestern North Carolina (Acarina). [Jr. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc.] 68: 191-94, ill. Haarl0v, N. Systematics and ecology of the genus: Tectocepheus Berlese 1896 (Acarina). [Ent. Medclel.] 26: 424-37, ill. Hammer, M. A new oribatid (Acarina) from Rocky Mountains. [Ent. Meddel.J 26: 380-83, ill. Lipovsky, L. J. A new genus and species of chigger mite (Acarina, Trombiculidae). [82] 25: 132-37, ill. Lucker and Sause. (See Anatomy.) Meyer, J. fidification de galles multiples par tine meme fondatrice et peuplement des galles d'Eriophyes macrorhynchus Nal. sur Acer Pseudoplatantis L. [2] 235 : 1428-40. Mihelcic, F.- Beitrag ztir systematik der tardigraden. [Arch. Zool. Ital.] 36: 57-103, ill., 1951 (*k). Roewer, C. F. Neotropische Arachnida Arthrogastra, zumeist aus Peru. [Sencken- bergiana] 33 : 37-58, ill. Shustrov, A. K. O reaktsii klesh- chei Ornithodorus lahorensis Neum. i Argas persicus F.-W. na nekotorye faktory vneshne! credy (Acarina). [Ent. Obozrenie] 31 : 393-97, 1951. Sorokin, S. V. Pochva polei kak biotop khlebnykh kleshchei (Acarina, Tyroglyphoidea). [Ent. Obozrenie] 31 : 411-15, 1951. Toledo Piza, Jr., S. de. Primeiras observances sobre os crommosomios do Tityus mettiendus Pocock (Scorp., Buth.). [Scientia Genetica, Torino] 4: 162-67 (Engl. summary). Tuzet, O., J.-F. Manier and M. Vogeli-Zuber. Sur quelques parasites in- testinaux de Mardonium piceus Attems 1952, Myriapode- Diplopode de Daloa (Cote d'lvoire). [Bull. Inst. Franc. d'Afr. Noire] 14: 1143-51, ill. Zumpt, F. (See Anatomy.) 80 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 1953 SMALLER ORDERS Levanidova, I. M. Lichinki Calamoceratidae (Trichoptera) dal'nego vostoka SSSR. [Ent. Obozrenie] 31: 529-37, ill., 1951. Ratcliffe, F. N., F. J. Gay and T. Greaves. Australian termites ; the biology, recognition, and economic importance of the common spe- cies. 124 pp. Melbourne : Commonwealth Sci. and Ind. Research Organ. Santis, L. de. Tres tisanopteros nuevos de la Republica Argentina. [Notas Museo La Plata] 15: sect. zool. no. 133: 59-70, ill., 1950. Schmidt, E. Fang und aufzucht der larve von Boyeria irene (Fonsc.) (Odon., Aeschnidae). [108] 17: 187-92, ill. Tapia, E. A. Dos especies de tisanopteros Argentines nuevos para la ciencia. [132] 154: 107-10, ill. ORTHOPTERA Beaudry, J. R. Additions a la faune orthopterologique de la province de Quebec ou du Canada. [Annales de L'ACFAS] 15: 100-2. Colombo, G. Brachit- terismo in Anacridium aegyptium. [Arch. Zool. Ital.] 36: 355-62, ill., 1951. Ulteriori osservazioni sulla biologia e sulla genetica dell "Anacridium aegyptium" L. [Atti Accad. Naz. Lincei] ser. 8, 12: 203-7. Griffiths, J. T.- Some biological notes on katydids in Florida citrus groves. [64] 35: 134-38, ill. Pasquier, R., X. Colonna-Cesari and J. Bonfils. Sur la determination des regions gregarigenes du criquet marocain Dociostaurus maroccanus Thunbg., en Corse. [2] 235: 1157-59. Rehn, J. A. G. The grass- hoppers and locusts (Acridoidea) of Australia. Vol. I, Tetrigidae and Eumastacidae. 326 pp., 21 pis. Melbourne : Commonw. Sci. & Ind. Res. Organization. Roth, L. M. The tergal gland of the male cockroach, Supella supellec- tilium. [79] 91: 469-74, ill. Singh, B. Observation on the biology of the cricket, Gymnogryllus humeralis Walker (Gryllidae) in the Dehra Dun insectary. [J. Zool. Soc. India] 4: 47-61, ill. Strohecker, H. F. Descriptions of new species and notes on North American Orthoptera. [12] 48: 683-88, ill. Toledo Piza, Jr., S. de. Numero e compor- tamento dos cromossomios em alguns ortopteros do Brasil. [Scientia Genetica, Torino] 4: 191-98 (Engl. summary). HEMIPTERA Boratynski, K. L. Matsucoccus pini (Green, 1925) (Coccoidea: Margarodidae) : Bionomics and external anatomy with reference to the variability of some taxonomic characters. [126] 103 : 285-326, ill. (k). Bozhko, M. P. K sravnitel'nomu izucheniiu tlei (Aphidodea) opu- shek listvennykh lesov polezashchitnykh polos. [Ent. Obozrenie] 31: 404-10, 1951. Danilevskii, A. S. (See Anatomy.) Drake, C. J. and H. C. Chapman. A new spe- Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 81 cies of Micracanthia from Florida (Saldidae). [64] 35: 147-50. Drake, C. J. and G. B. Viado. Saldoidea of the Philippines (Leptopodidae and Saldidae). [Philippine J. Sci.] 80: 339^2. Ellis, L. L The aquatic Hemiptera of southeastern Louisiana (exclusive of the Corixidae). [12] 48: 302-29, map (k). Knowlton, G. F. Bedbugs in swallow nests. [36] 47: 122. Porter, T. W. A new species of Hebridae from the Southwest. [82] 25 : 147^9, ill. Roon- wal, -M. L. The natural establishment and dispersal of an imported insect in India. The Lantana bug, Teleonemia scrupulose Stal (= lantanae Distant; Tingidae), with a description of its egg, nymphs and adult. [T- Zool. Soc. India] 4: 1-16, ill. Ruppel, R. F. and D. M. DeLong.- New species of Idona from Mexico (Cicadell.). [Lloydia] 15: 188-92. Shapiro, I. D. (See Anatomy.) Tropin, I. V. -(See Anatomy.) Wittlake, E. B. and R. H. Beamer.- A new Hebecephalus (Cicadellidae). [82] 25: 154-56, ill. LEPIDOPTERA Berger, L. A. (See Anatomy.) Franclemont, J. G. Four undescribed moths from western North America, with notes on closely related species (Pha- laenidae Olim. Noctuidae). [36] 47: 123-37, ill. Franz, E. -Typen uncl typoide des Natur-Museums Senckenberg, 5 : Papilionidae. [Senckenbergiana] 33: 23-36. Hackray, J. Les anomalies des elevages (Notodontidae). [84] 52: 57-8. Harz, K. Wanderschmetterlinge und ihre erfor- schung. [Natur u. Volk] 82: 236-37. Janmoulle, E. Note sur les moeurs des lepidopteres (Pieridae). [84] 52: 57. McElvare, R. R. Schinia saturata Grote. [36] 47: 140. Nielsen, A. and E. T. Migrations of the pieride butterfly Ascia monuste L. in Florida. [Ent. Meddel.] 26: 386-91, ill. Overlaet, F. G. La "Curiosite" chez les papillons (Satyridae). [84] 52: 55-6. Pierce, F. N. The female genitalia of the Noctuidae. 2d ed. 1952. E. W. Classey, 91 Bedford Lane, Feltham, England. (Rev. by L. A. Berger in [84] 52: 60.) Riabox, M. A. Osnovyne morfologiches- kie osobennosti zemlianykh podgryzaiushchikh sovok (Agrotidae). [Ent. Obozrenie] 31: 474-84, ill., 1951. Shvanvich, B. N. Opyty nad lokalizatsiei risunka kryla u cheshuekrylykh. [Ent. 'Obozrenie] 31: 485-94. ill., 1951. Vinogradova, V. N. ( )sobennosti zhilkovaniia zadnego kryla v semeistve Pyralidae. [Ent. Obozrenie] 31 : 495-99, ill", 1951. DIPTERA Alexander, C. P. New or insufficiently- known crane-flies from Chile (Tipulidae). [Agricultura tecnica, Santiago] 11: 99-118, ill. Baker and Edington. 82 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 1953 (See Anatomy.) Bishopp, et al. (See General.) Blickle, R. L. Notes on the mosquitoes (Culicinae) of New Hamp- shire. [Proc. N. J. Mosq. Ext. Assn.] 1952: 198-202. Car- penter, S. J. and E. L. Peyton. Mosquito studies in the Panama Canal Zone during 1949 and 1950 (Culicidae). [12] 48: 673-82. DeFalco, R. J. (See General.) Defretin, R. (See Anatomy.) Dobzhansky, Spassky and Spassky. (See Anatomy.) Frick, K. E. The status of Agromyza illinoensis Malloch, 1934, and its correct generic position (Agromyzidae). [82] 25: 150-54, ill. Grunin, K. I. O proiskhozhdenii roda Rhinoestrus Br. (Oestridae). [Ent. Obozrenie] 31: 467-73, ill., 1951 (*). Stroenie perednikh dykhalets lickinok ovodov. (Oestridae, Hypodermatidae, Gastrophilidae). [Ent. Obozrenie] 31: 463-66, ill., 1951. Hagmann, L. E. Mansonia perturbans recent studies in New Jersey. [Proc. N. J. Mosq. Ext. Assn.] 1952: 60-5, ill. Hansens, E. J. Some observations on the abundance of salt marsh greenheads. [Proc. N. J. Mosq. Ext. Assn.] 1952 : 93-8. Huckett, H. C. Males of the genus Hylemya sens. Lat. from North America, having dorsal bristles on mid metatarsus, with descriptions of new species (Musci- dae). [36] 47: 113-22 (k). James, M. T. The genera Epideisticus, Afrodontomyia, and Cyrtopus (Stratiomyi- dae). [82] 25: 125-29 (*k). Pfadt, R. E. Seasonal de- velopment of cattle grubs in Wyoming. [82] 25 : 137-43. Philip, C. B. (See General.) Power, M. E. (See Anat- omy.) Smith, M. E. Immature stages of the marine fly, Hypocharassus pruinosus Wh., with a review of the biol- ogy of immature Dolichopodidae. [12] 48: 421-32. Ta- mino, G. (See Anatomy.) Wirth, W. W. Notes on marine midges from the eastern United States (Tendipe- didae [= Chironomidae]). [Bull. Marine Sci. Gulf & Caribbean] 2: 307-12, ill. COLEOPTERA Brull, H. Uber die bedeutung der mundwerkzeuge des mannlichen imd des weiblichen hirsch- kafers (Lucanidae). [Natur und Volk] 82: 289-94, ill. Conci, C. (See General.) Dillon, L. S. The Meloidae of Texas. [12] 48: 330-420, ill. (*k). Edel'man, N. M. (See Anatomy.) Edgren, R. A. A bifurcated antenna in the soldier beetle, Chauliognathus pennsylvanicus (Canthari- dae). [97] 114: 3 pp. Fenton and Dahms. (See General.) Franciscolo, M. Sulla posizione sistematica delle Glipa americane ed africane (Mordellidae). [Doriana] 1, no. 23, 8 pp., ill. Gressitt, J. L. The tortoise beetles of China Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 83 (Chrysomelidae : Cassidinae). [Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci.] ser. 4, v. 27: 433-591, ill. (*k). Jolivet, P. Remarques pre- liminaires sur 1'ecologie de Timarcha balearica Gory (Chry- somelidae). [136] 88: 138-40. Mulnard, J. La spertna- togenese double d'Acanthoscelides obtectus Say (Bruchi- dae). [Ann. Soc. Roy. Zool. Belg.] 82: 399-445,^11. Ochs, G. Gyrinidae aus El Salvador. [Senckenbergiana] 33: 147-50, ill. (*k). Robert, F. A. Contribution a 1'etude du comportement du Neoclytus acuminatus (Fab.) et de son parasite, 1'Heliconidea ligator (Say). [Annales de 1'ACFAS] 15: 102-5. Ruschel, G. Nuevos Curculionidae de Bolivia y Peru. II. Notas a algunas especies de Brethes. [Revista Museo La Plata, Argentina] 6: Sect. Zool. no. 38: 69-116, ill., 1950. Schedl, K. E. Fauna Philippinensis, VIII. Contribution to the morphology and taxonomy of the Scolytoides. [Philippine J. Sci.] 80: 363-71, ill. (*k). Selander, R. B. New species of Meloidae from Utah. [82] 25 : 130-32, ill. Steel, W. O. A note on the habits of Vel- leius dilatatus (F.) (Staphylinidae). [60] 88: 278. Straneo, 5. L. Nuovi Pterostichini (Carabidae). [Doriana] 1; no. 8: 1-8 (S). Uhmann, E. Austral- Asiatische Hispinae, VIII, Callispini. [Phil. J. Sci.] 80: 343-63, ill. (*k). Young, F. N. A new species of Suphisellus from Florida (Noteridae). [64] 35: 157-58. HYMENOPTERA Bruns, H. (See General.) Dehalu and Leclercq. (See General.) Gaul, A. T. (See Anat- omy.) Kullenberg, B. (See General.) Neubecker, F. "Ameisen-Rauchsaulen." [Natur u. Volk] 82: 233-35, ill. Pardi, L. Studio della attivita e della divisione di lavoro in una societa di Polistes gallicus (L.) dopo la comparsa delle operaie. [Arch. Zool. Ital.] 36: 363-431, ill., 1951. Pasteels, J. 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His father, Professor Charles Henry Fernald (18381921), was an authority on various groups of Microlepidoptera, while his mother, Maria Elizabeth (Smith) Fernald (1839-1919), was similarly known for her studies on the' scale insects, particularly for her 'Catalogue of the Coccidae of the World.' His boyhood and early manhood was spent in Orono, Maine, where his father was on the staff of the Maine State College (now the University of Maine). Many of his summers were spent on Mount Desert Island, at the birthplace of his father on Fernald Point, near Southwest Harbor. The parents were active in collecting the insects of this part of Maine and it was natural that the youth should participate in these ac- tivities and gradually become interested in the science to which he later devoted his life. He received the B.S. degree from Maine in 1885, the M.S. in 1888. He then entered Johns Hop- kins University, receiving the Ph.D. degree in 1890. On June 9 of this same year he w r as married to Miss Minna R. Simon, of Baltimore, who survives. Throughout their long wedded life of more than sixty years, Mrs. Fernald was a loyal helpmate whose kindly interest and sympathy with his work undoubtedly has proved his greatest possible inspiration. Three children were born to this union : Helen Elizabeth (Professor at the Royal 1 The frontispiece, for which the NEWS is indebted to Miss Helen E. Fernald, shows Dr. Fernald at 83 years of age. ED. 86 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 1953 Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto, authority on Chinese art) ; Charles Henry ( who was Professor of Business Adminis- tration at the University of Arkansas at the time of his death in 1942) ; and Ruth Louise (Mrs. Carl B. Stone, of Cincinnati, Ohio). Doctor Fernald's first position was that of Professor of Zoology at the Pennsylvania State College from 1890 to 1899, where he functioned as State Entomologist, and, during the last year, as State Zoologist. In June 1899 he was called to the Massachusetts Agricultural College (now the University of Massachusetts) as Professor of Entomology in the newly estab- lished Department of Entomology. His father never held this title, having been Professor of Zoology. Doctor Fernald held his Professorship and Head of the Department for thirty-one years, retiring in 1930 because of ill health. At this time he moved permanently to Florida, first residing in Orlando, in 1938 moving to Winter Park, where he built a beautiful home at 1128 Oxford Road. Here he spent his remaining days and died on the morning of July 15, 1952, following several increas- ingly serious attacks of angina. He was buried in Palm Ceme- tery, Winter Park, beneath the palms and live oaks. Virtually all honors possible in his chosen field came to him during his lifetime. In the American Association of Economic Entomologists, which he joined as a young man, he became president in 1914, and at the time of his decease was one of only- two Honorary Members (the other being Professor Herbert Osborn who still survives). In the Entomological Society of America, he was a charter member, became a Fellow in 1914, and was chosen an Honorary Fellow in 1939. He presented the Annual Address before the 22nd meeting of the Society at Nash- ville, Tennessee, on December 27, 1927, speaking on the sub- ject "Insects, the People and the State." He was a member of the Honorary Societies of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi. On January 14, 1925, the Fernald Entomological Club was founded at the University of Massachusetts and was named in honor of Doctor Fernald. Following his retirement in 1930 he prepared an account of the work of the Department, under the Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 87 general title "The History of Entomology at the Massachusetts Agricultural College 1867-1930," which was issued in mimeo- graph form in 1938 and serves as a basic account of the founding and early work of the Department. Since 1932 the Fernald Club has sponsored an annual publication, likewise in mimeo- graphed form, entitled the "Fernald Club Yearbook" which con- tinues this record of the work of the department, staff, students, and alumni. In 1921 the McGraw-Hill Company published the first edi- tion of his "Applied Entomology," followed by later editions in 1926 and 1935. For the fourth edition (1942) Doctor Fernald chose as co-author one of his former students, Doctor Harold H. Shepard, who is now engaged in the preparation of a re- vised fifth edition. This very important college text in ento- mology was widely accepted and thousands of copies have been sold in this country and abroad. Doctor Fernald's fields of investigation and research included life-history studies of various insects, the burning of foliage by arsenicals, and, in the field of insect taxonomy, important stud- ies on the Sphecid wasps, upon which group he published various papers, particularly on the species of the New World. In 1913 he went to Europe where he visited many of the leading museums and studied the various types of Sphecidae described by earlier workers. Near the close of his active career he presented his important collection of these wasps to the United States National Museum. His manuscript notes on the various types in the European museums are in the possession of Doctor V. S. L. Pate. Doctor Fernald's breadth of knowledge in entomology and zoology and his ability to impart this to his students combined to make him one of the outstanding teachers of entomology in America. He, together with his father, belonged to a school that insisted on breadth of learning in his pupils and from his earliest days at Amherst adhered to the principle of the so-called tripartite thesis for candidates working toward the higher de- grees. This included separate studies on insect morphology, taxonomy, and biology, together with additional work on the 88 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 1953 methods of control in the case of injurious species. That such a policy was sound seems to be shown by the unusually high calibre of his students, many of whom became prominent in commercial work, in the Federal service, as State entomologists, and as teachers in colleges and universities. Following his retirement from active duties at the relatively early age of 64, Doctor Fernald continued in correspondence with many of his former friends and students. That there was no decrease in the affection and respect for their beloved teacher and friend was strikingly shown on the occasion of his eightieth birthday, in 1946, when hundreds of letters, cards, and telegrams, expressing their love and appreciation, poured in from former students in this country and abroad. Mrs. Alexander and I owe a vast debt of gratitude to Doctor and Mrs. Fernald. When we first arrived in Amherst in late August 1922, they insisted that we stay at their home until we could find a house and get settled. We can never forget the hospitality shown us at that time and constantly thereafter. De- spite his busy and exacting life, Doctor Fernald insisted upon accompanying us in our work of house hunting, and in every possible way made our introduction to the town and to the de- partment a most happy and auspicious one. Doctor Fernald's life personified kindliness, patience, and understanding. His own sterling integrity and uprightness made him demand comparable characteristics in others, and he had an uncanny ability to evaluate these qualities. His manner was invariably dignified and courtly. All of these many attri- butes were briefly summarized at the end by a friend who called him "God's true gentleman." His profound love for his home and for his family, and his deep loyalty to his friends, were en- dearing qualities. We who were so fortunate as to have known him and to have been associated with him, will always remember Doctor Fernald as a great teacher, a perfect gentleman, and a true friend. CHARLES P. ALEXANDER Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 89 Glow-worms in a Marine Littoral Habitat in Jamaica (Coleoptera; Lampyridae) * By FRANK A. MCDERMOTT, Wilmington, Delaware In February 1952, during a study of the Lampyridae of Ja- maica, the larvae of an unidentified species were found crawling on wet rocks at the edge of the sea at Whitehouse Bay on the south coast. These rocks were coral limestone, much corroded and pitted, affording a very treacherous foothold ; they were so situated that at high tide the sea-water splashed over them, while at ebb tide they were merely kept wet by the spray. Three spe- cies of snails were abundant on the rocks ; these snails were kindly identified for me by Dr. C. Bernard Lewis, Director and Curator of the Museum of the Institute of Jamaica, as Littorina zicsac, Nerita peloronta, and Tectariits tuberculatns. One of the glow- worms was found half-way inside the shell of a snail of the latter species, presumably feeding on the snail. The glow-worms were 9 to 11 mm. long, greyish dorsally and white or yellow ventrally, of the general shape and appearance of the larvae of Photinus, and with the usual ventral luminous organs on the 8th abdominal segment. It was not possible to determine the spe- cies. A few adults of Photinus commissus E. Oliv. and of P. synchronans Barber were in flight in the vicinity, and the color and size of the glow-worms suggest that they may be the larvae of the former. Neither of these species is at all confined to coastal areas ; both had been taken shortly before at inland lo- calities up to 15 or 20 miles from the sea, and at altitudes up to 2,400 ft. A peculiarity of these glow-worms was the possession of four nearly parallel rows of dorsal tubercles ; this suggests the similar arrangement of tubercles on Jamphotus tuberculatns Bar- ber, but it seems very doubtful whether these littoral larvae are juvenile instars of that species, since a full-grown larva of Jamphotus had been found at Portland Gap, St. Thomas Parish, at an altitude of about 5,600 ft. on October 14, 1950. In spite of the low range of the normal tides, 12 to 15 inches, * This investigation \vas supported in part by the American Philosophi- cal Society, Grant No. 1370, Penrose Fund. 90 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 1953 it appears that the glow-worms are active only during the ebb tide; first seen at 9:30 P.M. on February 21st, they did not ap- pear until an hour later successively, on the next three nights. At this tide stage the rocks are merely wet by spray, and the snails, which are firmly attached to the rocks when the water is washing over them, then crawl on the wet surface, and the glow- worms pursue them. The presence of the larvae on these par- ticular rocks can hardly be unique, but they were not found on the same dates on similar rocks a few hundred feet east of this location, nor were they found a few nights later at Bloody Bay (west end of the Island), or subsequently at St. Ann's Bay (north coast) or Port Henderson (south coast). At least two, and usually all three of the same species of snails were present at these other locations. The rock formation on which they were found is only about 15 ft. long, and spray-wet for a width of about 10 ft. Only one glow-worm was seen on a dry rock above the reach of the spray. Close search during daylight hours failed to reveal a single glow-worm, but there was abundant opportunity for them to hide in crevices and holes in the rocks. Nor were any larvae or pupae found in any of the great many snail shells examined. Moonlight may also affect the activity of the glow- worms; the time during which they were seen was moonless, while some of the later examinations were in fairly bright moon- light, although the tide stage was favorable. As far as I know, only three persons beside myself have seen the glow-worms on the rocks. Four specimens of the larvae, including the one found eating the snail, and also this snail, have been given to the Division of Insects of the U. S. National Museum ; two larvae and specimens of the snail are in the Museum of the Institute of Jamaica. Just what function, if any, the luminosity plays in the life of lampyrid larvae is obscure. Aquatic glow-worms, in fresh water, have been described by several authors ; the glow-worms found in Jamaica are not strictly aquatic, but no similar habitat appears to have been noted previously. Since the foregoing was written, information has been received that the glow-worms were still present on the rocks at White- house Bay in early September. Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 91 Concerning Rheumatobates rileyi * Bergroth (Gerridae) By H. B. HUNGERFORD - To me, Rheumatobates is the most interesting genus in the Gerridae. The bizarre modifications of the antennae and legs of the males in many species are strange indeed ! These little striders are exceedingly lively and nervous creatures and diffi- cult to keep in captivity. In 1920 3 I reported that the females are provided with an ovipositor for inserting the eggs in plant tissue and figured both the ovipositor and the fully developed ovum. I did not discover the deposited eggs either in field or laboratory. In 1923 at the University of Michigan Biological Station, I found large numbers of Rheumatobates rileyi palosi Blatchley on the slowly moving water of Bessey Creek but did not succeed in transporting many live specimens across Douglas Lake to the station laboratory. In 1927, J. K. Gwynn Silvey, at my suggestion, undertook a study of the life history of this species at the Biological Station and continued his studies during the summer of 1928. He published his results in 193 1. 4 He described the mating behavior, reported a female ovipositing in the tissues at the base of a Potamogeton leaf and figured the eggs, five nymphal instars and adults. His plate is quite satisfactory but the legend incorrect, Figure 3 being the fifth instar not the first; figure 7 the first not the fifth, etc. No precise dates are given in this paper and nothing to indicate that any specimens were reared from egg to adult. More work should be done on the biology of Rheumatobates. It may be helpful to know that the best way to bring these in- 1 Michigan specimens are R. rileyi palosi Blatchley. - Contribution from University of Michigan Biological Station and Contribution No. 817, Department of Entomology, University of Kansas. 3 HUXGERFORD, H. B. 1920. The biology and ecology of aquatic and semiaquatic Hemiptera. University of Kansas Science Bulletin, Vol. XI, P. 120, Plate XVI. 4 SILVEY, J. K. GWYNN. 1931. Observations on the life history of Rheumatobates rileyi (Bergr.). Pap. Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, Vol. XIII, pp. 433-446, Plate XL. 92 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 1953 sects from field to laboratory is to place toweling paper in the bottom of a minnow bucket, moisten the paper and let the Rheumatobates drop from the dip net into the pail. Do not permit too much water to drip from the net into the pail and the insects will survive a considerable journey on the moist paper. In the laboratory, instead of using aquaria containing water I have had better success with finger bowls and large seven inch stender dishes in the bottoms of which had been placed several layers of toweling paper moistened but not too wet. The female Rheumatobates insert their eggs into and often protruding through the top layer of paper. While it is extremely difficult to locate the oviposition punctures from above, by peel- ing off the top layer of paper and examining its under side the eggs are readily found, either plainly protruding and exposed or but thinly covered by paper fibers, as shown in the text-figure. Pieces of paper containing eggs may be cut out and placed in small stenders for following the embryological development and hatching of these insects. This same technique has been used with success in rearing Mesovelia which also lays its eggs in the paper and with Microvelia, Hydrometra and other surface forms that simply attach their eggs to the paper. It is suggested, therefore, that losses from drowning that occur in aquaria may be avoided in studies of other semiaquatic Hemiptera and may facilitate the rearing of these insects. Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 93 Two New Millipeds Taken in California Caves By RALPH V. CHAMBERLIN Among millipeds taken in California and submitted to me for identification by Edward Danehy, who has been active for some years with the Stanford spelological group in the exploration of caves in that area, the two forms here described were found. Neither of these forms shows any obvious adaptive modifica- tions to cave life unless the slightness of pigmentation in the ocelli of the Striaria should be open to such interpretation. The types of the new forms are in the author's collection. Family Eurydesmidae Genus SIGMOCHEIR Chamberlin The finding of a second species referable to this genus is a matter of interest. The present form seems to be sufficiently distinct from the generotype, 5". calaveras Chamb. in coloration and the details of the gonopods of the male, although in the latter character they are obviously close. Among related genera Sigmocheir agrees with Montaphe and Orophe in having no spines on the second joint of any of the legs, such a spine being present, although sometimes considerably reduced in the west- ern genera other than these. It differs from Montaphe and even more strongly from Orophe in the smaller keels which are lo- cated higher up on the sides, with the intervening dorsum much less convex than in those genera. Generotype : Sigmocheir calaveras Chamberlin Sigmocheir dohenyi n. sp. Head finely reticulate in black above, solid black in the area between antennae, and below this except over the labral region where yellowish. Antennae yellow. Somewhat less than an- terior half of collum black, the remaining portion yellow. The immediately following tergites are black between the keels ex- cept a large sublimate median area in front of the caudal margin ; the black area extends out in a narrow stripe along anterior bor- 94 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 1953 der of the keel on each side, the remaining part of which is yellow. Farther back the entire keels are yellow and the median yellow area is enlarged, transversely oblong, to occupy most of the middle part of the metatergites, on the more posterior seg- ments fusing with the yellow area of the keels. The prozonites are greenish white except the caudal portion which is black and a median tongue-like or triangular extension of the black area subdividing the light area, the black also extensing foward on each side between bases of keels. Lower part of tergites and the venter yellow. Basal part of anal tergite black, the cauda yellow. Legs yellow. Antennae slender, the second to sixth articles not much dif- fering in length, the sixth more strongly clavately widening clistad than the others. Colluni much wider than the head and than the second tergite ; anterior corners widely obliquely rounded off, the posterior cor- ners narrowly rounded ; median portion of anterior margin straight, the caudal margin subarcuate, moderately convex over middle portion and nearly straight at sides where oblique. Keels inserted rather high up on the sides, horizontal, none overlapping though some may be in contact on anterior seg- ments, well separated over most of body. Keels margined nar- rowly anteriorly and posteriorly, the lateral margining thicker, pores opening laterally through a moderate thickening of the mar- gin. Keels of anterior segments subrectangular ; farther back the anterior corners become more and more rounded off ; on last several pairs of keels the posterior corners become produced caudad, those of the 17th and 18th most strongly so, those of the 19th reduced. Cauda narrow, nearly straight ; much exceed- ing the valves. Legs with none of the joints with a distal spine. Likewise no sternal spines. Width of female holotype, 7 mm. Locality : CALIFORNIA, Tuolumme Co., Crystal Palace Cave. One female taken in twilight zone by Hal Treacy, Dec. 17, 1951. Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 95 Family Striariidae Striaria eldora new species Light horn brownish or in part somewhat dusky above from adherent fine particles of dirt, the sides and venter yellow, and legs and antennae yellow. Eyes pale, the ocelli small, compactly arranged in a triangular patch on each side, 12 or 13 in number. Antennae of moderate length, clavately thickened distad ; geniculate at end of second article ; the second and fourth articles longest. Collum resembling that of grannlosa but relatively shorter, much less than twice as long as the second tergite ; the crests unusally low, almost striaform, short, incomplete anteriorly, the surface roughened between them. The succeeding tergites with the usual twelve crests, these more elevated at their ends ; surface between crests finely granu- lar. Anal tergite with the large median lobe caudally rounded, the angle of the indentation separating off the lateral lobe on each side obtuse. Width, about 1 mm. Locality : CALIFORNIA, Eldorado Co., Crystal Cosumnes Cave. Three females taken in the cave in total darkness by Art Lang and Gill Lange, on Feb. 2, 1952. Insects of Micronesia J. LINSLEY GRESSITT has been appointed Entomologist, Ber- nice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu. He is in charge of the project "Insects of Micronesia," now being taken over by Bishop Museum from the Pacific Science Board. A grant of $15,200 has been made to Bishop Museum by the National Science Foundation to help support the project for the next 18 months. One hundred specialists of a dozen countries are now collaborat- ing on the project. J. F. GATES CLARKE, N. L. H. KRAUSS and DR. GRESSITT have been completing the field work in the Caro- line Islands during 1952-53 under the Science Board's contract with the Office of Naval Research. 96 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 1953 Concerning a New Genus, Dinocryptops, and the Nomenclatorial Status of Otocryptops and Scolopocryptops (Chilopoda: Scolo- pendromorpha : Cryptopidae) By RALPH E. CRABILL, JR., Department of Entomology, Cornell University, and Ithaca College In 1844 Newport proposed a new genus, Scolopocryptops, 1 to which he referred five species : miersii sp.n. ; inclanostoma sp.n. ; ferruginea (Linne) ; se.rspinosa (Say) ; and longit arsis sp.n. He designated no type. In 1895 Pocock 2 stated that the type of this genus was miersii Newport, and subsequent authors have accepted his decision. When Erich Haase proposed Otocryptops in 1887, 3 he in- cluded a single species, rubiginosa (L. Koch), 1878, within it which, of course, established its type by monotypy. But all authors have overlooked the fact the Hippolyte Lucas had already fixed the type of Scolopocryptops in 1849 4 when he stated that its type was Scolopocryptops melanostoma Newport, 1844. Therefore, since rubiginosa, the type of Otocryptops, is congeneric with melanostoma, which is the type of Scolopo- cryptops, Otocryptops is a subjective synonym of Scolopo- cryptops. There is no available generic name for the species previously referred to Scolopocryptops; therefore, I propose the new genus Dinocryptops, for their reception. In summary, those species previously referred to Otocryptops, i.e., sexspinosus (Say), melanostomus (Newport), rubiginosus (L. Koch), etc., must be accorded the generic name Scolopo- cryptops, whereas miersii (Newport), broelemanni (Kraepelin), etc. are referred to a new genus, Dinocryptops, the type of which is Scolopocryptops miersii Newport, 1844 \--Dinocryptops miersii (Newport)]. i Trans. Linn. Soc. London, XIX, p. 275 (1844). 2Biol. Centr. Amer., Chilop. Diplop., p. 28 (1895). a Abhand. Mus. Dresden, V, p. 96 (1887). * Diet. Univ. D'Hist. Nat, XI, p. 444 (1849). Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 97 A Check List of the Trichoptera (Caddis Flies) of New Hampshire By WALLACE J. MORSE and ROBERT L. BLICKLE x> 2 (Continued from p. 73} Banksiola Martynov calva Banks, Durham (It), June 16-Aug. 9; canadensis (Banks), Durham (It), June 28-30; concatenata (Walker), Claremont, Hampton, Mt. Washington, Squam Lake (LJM), July 22; dossuaria (Say), NH (LJM, CB), Durham (It), June 16; selina Betten, Bow, Durham, Hopkinton (It), Lee (RLE; It). June 18-Aug. 26; smithi (Banks), New Durham (JGC), July 19. Ptilostomis Kolenati angustipennis (Hagen), Newfields (PRL), Aug. 22; ocel- lifera (Walker), Claremont, Franconia, Milford, Squam Lake (LJM), Barrington (WJM, JGC), Durham (It), Exeter, Lee (RLE), June 3-Aug. 13; posita (Walker), NH (LJM), New- fields, Aug. 23 ; semifasciata (Say), Squam Lake (LJM), Dur- ham (JGC), Lee (It), June 5-July 30. Phryganea Linneaus cinerea Walker, Squam Lake (LJM), Lee (It), July 13-15. LlMNEPHILIDAE Raderna Hagen incerta (Banks), Franconia (CB, LJM), Durham (CFF), May 29. Dicosmoecus McLachlen quadrinotatus (Banks), White Mountains, Randolph (NB, LJM), Sept. 23. Platycentropus Ulmer indistinctus (Walker), White Mountains (NB, LjM), July; radiatus (Say), White Mountains (LJM), Durham"(JGC; It), Lee (RLE, It), Newport (It), July 5-Aug. 24. Glyphotaelius Stephens hostilis Hagen, New London (HHR), Durham, Lee, Ply- mouth (It), May 26-Aug. 21. Astenophylax Ulmer argus (Harris), Franconia (LJM), Durham, Plymouth (It), June 13-July 3. 1 N. H. Agr. Expr. Sta. 2 Scientific Contribution No. 147. 98 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 1953 Hesperophylax Banks designatus (Walker), NH (HHR). Ironoquia Banks parvula (Banks), Durham (It), Lee (RLE), June 18- Oct. 24. Limnephilus Leach bimaculatus Walker, Squam Lake, White Mountains (LJM), Durham, Lee (It), June 30-July 20; consocius Walker, NH (CB, HHR), Durham (JGC/WJM; It), Hopkinton, Lee, Newington (It), Apr. 24-Aug. 15; curtis (Banks), White Mountains (alpine) (LJM), Aug. 10; extractus Walker, Claremont (LJM), May 10; hyalinus Hagen, Claremont (NB), Rumney (It), July 30; indivisus Walker, Claremont, Hampton (LJM), Durham, Hopkinton (It), Lee (RLE; It), Plymouth (It), June 24-Sept. 6; moestus Banks, Concord, Franconia, Mt. Kingsman, Rumney, Squam Lake (LJM), Bow, Durham, Lancaster, Lee, No. Hampton (It), June 12-Sept. 17; montanus (Banks), Franconia, Mt. Washington (CB, LJM) ; ornatus Banks, Franconia (CB), Durham, Lee (It), June 20- July 17; ozburni (Milne), Lee, Plymouth (It), June 24-July 3; parvulus (Banks), Barrington, Durham, Lee (It), May 10- July 6; *plaga Walker, NH (LJM, CB) ; sericeus (Say), Claremont, Dublin, Hampton, White Mountains (LJM), Dur- ham, Plymouth (It), June 29-Aug. 24; sordidus (Hagen), Dur- ham, Lee (It), July 20-Aug. 9; submonilifer Walker, Fran- conia, Milford, Mt. Washington, Squam Lake (LJM, CB), Durham (WJM; It), Lee (RLE; It), Plymouth (It), May 1- Nov. 16; vastus Hagen, White Mountains (LJM). Pycnopsyche Banks antica (Walker), White Mountains (NB), Durham, Hopkin- ton (It), Lee (RLE; It), Plymouth (It), June 24-Sept. 14; circularis (Provancher), NH (CB), Durham (It), Sept. 28; conspersa Banks, White Mountains (NB) ; gentilis (McLach- lan), Franconia, White Mountains (LJM), Durham (It), June 10; guttifer (Walker), Franconia, Shelburne (LJM, CB), Durham (It), Lee (RLE; It), No. Hampton (It), Twin Moun- tain (CFF), June 24-Oct. 5; lepida (Hagen), Durham (It), Lee (RLE ; It), Aug. 2-Oct. 1 ; limbata (McLachlan), Hopkin- ton (It), Aug. 30; luculenta (Betten), NH (CB) ; scabri- pennis (Rambur), White Mountains (LJM), July; subfasciata (Say), White Mountains (LJM), July 26. * May be a synonym of L. sericeus. Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 99 Caborius Navas lyratus Ross, Durham, Plymouth (It), May 24-Oct. 5 ; punc- tatissimus (Walker) Hampton (LJM), Durham, Hopkinton, Lee, Newington (It), Aug. 22-Sept. 28. Frenesia Betten & Mosely difficilis (Walker), Franconia, Dublin, Mt. Monadnock, Squam Lake (LJM, CB), Durham (WJM, JGC, RLE; It), Lee (RLE), June 24-Dec. 3; missa (Milne), Mt. Monadnock (LJM), Durham (WJM, }GC; It), Lee (RLE), Oct. 24- Nov. 18. Glyphopsyche Eanks irrorata (Fabricius), NH (CB). Psychoglypha Ross subborealis (Eanks), Lee (RLE), Nov. 14-15. Phanocelia Eanks canadensis (Banks), Durham (It), Oct. 19. Drusinus Betten sparsus (Banks), White Mountains (LJM) ; uniformis Betten, Durham, Lee (It), June 16-July 15. Neophylas McLachlan aniqua Ross, White Mountains (DGD), July 2-Sept. 4; concinnus McLachlan, Dublin, Franconia (LJM) ; fuscus Banks, Franconia (CB, LJM) ; nacatus Denning, Jefferson (DGD), Sept. 16; oligius Ross, Durham, Lee (It), Aug. 25- Oct. 24; ornatus Banks, White Mts. (CB, LJM); slossonae Banks, Franconia (NB). MOLANNIDAE Molanna Curtis blenda Sibley, Lee (It), July 5; cinerea Hagen, Franconia, Squam Lake (LJM), July 29; musetta Betten, Bow, Durham, Freedom, Lee, N. Conway (It), Northwood (JGC), Plymouth (It), June 9-Aug. 30; tryphena Betten, Durham, Lee (It), June 25-Aug. 25; uniophila Vorhies, Squam Lake (LJM), Aug. 10-11. ODONTOCERIDAE Psilotreta Banks frontalis Banks, Lee (It), June 30; indecisa (Walker), Claremont, Franconia, Gorham (LJM), Colebrook (WJM, 100 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 1953 RLE), June 19- July 20; labida Ross, Benton (HHR), Dur- ham, Lee (JGC; It), May 1-June 26. CALAMOCERATIDAE Ganonema McLachlan americanum (Walker), NH (LJM), Lee (WJM), June 22. LEPTOCERIDAE Leptocerus Leach americanus (Banks), Durham (WJM; It), June 18 July 23. Leptocella Banks Candida (Hagen), NH (LJM); exquisita (Walker), NH (LJM), Bow, Durham, Lee (It), June 25-July 30; pavida (Hagen), Bow, Hopkinton, Lee (It), North wood (WJM), July 3-27; uwarowii (Kolenati), NH (LJM). Athripsodes Billberg alagmus Ross, Bow, Durham, Lee (It), June 15-July 19; angustus (Banks), Bow, Hopkinton, Durham, Lee (It), June 19-Aug. 8; cancellatus (Betten), Bow, Durham, Hopkinton, Lee, Plymouth (It), June 30-Aug. 7; dilutus (Hagen), Dur- ham, Lee (It), June 19-Aug. 29; flavus (Banks), Dublin, Squam Lake (LJM), July; mentieus (Walker), Milford, Squam Lake (LJM), June 2; punctatus (Banks), Durham, Hopkinton, Lee (It), June 20-Aug. 10; resurgens (Walker), Squam Lake (LJM), Bow, Durham, Hopkinton, Lee (It), June 5-Aug. 8; tarsi-punctatus (Vorhies), Bow, Durham, Hopkinton, Lee, Plymouth (It), June 24-Aug. 7; transversus (Hagen), Squam Lake (LJM), Bow, Lee, Plymouth (It), June 24-Aug. 7. Oecetis McLachlan avara (Banks), Durham (WJM; It), Hopkinton, Lee, Rum- ney (It), June 28-Aug. 30; cinerascens (Hagen), Bow, Dur- ham, Freedom, Hopkinton, Lee, Newport, Plymouth, Rumney (It), June 9-Sept. 2; immobilis (Hagen) Durham, Plymouth (It), June 27-Sept. 2; inconspicua (Walker), NH (LJM), Bow, Durham, Freedom, Hopkinton (It), Lee, (RLE, WJM; It), Lee (RLE, WJM; It), Northwood (JGC), Plymouth, *Rye (It), June 15-Sept. 8; osteni Milne, Durham (HHR), Dur- ham, Freedom, Lee, Rumney (It), June 18-Aug. 30; persimilis (Banks), Durham, Hopkinton, Lee (It), July 3-Sept. 10; scala Milne, Hopkinton (It), July 18-Aug. 8. Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 101 Triaenodes McLachlan aba Milne, Durham (HHR). Durham, Lee, Plymouth (It), June 9-Sept. 10; baris Ross, Bow, Durham, Lee (It), June 24- Aug. 21 ; ignita (Walker), Hampton (NB) ; injusta (Hagen), Durham, Lee (It), June 20-Aug. 27; nox Ross, Durham, Lee, Plymouth (It), June 9-July 30; perna Ross, Durham, Lee (It), July 4-Aug. 27; tarda Milne, Hampton (LJM), Bow, Durham, Freedom, Lee (It), June 18-Aug. 25. Mystacides Berthold longicornis (Linnaeus), Bennington, Squam Lake (LJM), Northwood (WJM), July 11-23; sepulchralis (Walker), NH (LJM), Durham (WJM, RLE ; It), Lee (It), May 29-Aug. 24. Setodes Rambur incerta (Walker), Durham, Hopkinton (It), July 5-Aug. 8. GOERIDAE Goera Curtis calcarata Banks, Colebrook, Durham, Lee (It), July 10; stylata Ross, Plymouth (It), June 24. LEPIDOSTOMATIDAE Lepidostoma Rambur americanum (Banks), Franconia (LJM, CB) ; bryanti (Banks), Lee (It), June 22-27; costalis (Banks), White Mts. (LJM, HHR), Lee (It), Aug. 10; frosti (Milne), Gorham, Pinkham, White Mts. (LJM, HHR), July 20-26; griseum (Banks), White Mts. (LJM); latipenms (Banks), Lee (It), Aug. 21-30; lydia Ross, Mt. Washington, Warren, Woodstock (HHR). Bradford (WJM), Lee, Rye (It), June 16-Sept. 6; modestum (Banks), Franconia (LJM) ; Ontario Ross, Ben- ton, Mt. Washington, Randolph, Woodstock (HHR) ; promi- nens (Banks), Mt. Washington (DGD), July 29-Aug. 4; sackeni (Banks), N. Conway (NB), Durham, Hopkinton, Lee, Plymouth (It), Aug. 11-Sept. 19; swannanoa Ross, Benton, Mt. Washington, Woodstock (HHR); togatum (Hagen), Squam Lake, Mt. Washington (LJM), Durham, Lee (It), June 14-Sept. 7; vernalis (Banks), White Mts. (DGD), July 17. BRACK YCENTRIDAE Micrasema McLachlan wataga Ross, Bow, Durham, Hopkinton, Lee, Plymouth, Rumney (It), June 11-Aug. 30. 102 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 1953 Brachycentrus Curtis americanus (Banks), Franconia (LJM, CB) ; lateralis (Say), Pinkham (LJM). SERICOSTOMATIDAE Sericostoma Berthold distinctum (Ulmer), Squam Lake, Franconia (LJM), Dur- ham (JGC; It), Hopkinton (It), Lee (RLE; It), May 1- July 30; griseum (Banks), Durham (WJM, JGC; It), Lee (RLE; It), May 1-Aug. 1. HELICOPSYCHIDAE Helicopsyche Hagen borealis (Hagen), West Milan (HHR), Durham (WJM, RLE; It), Lee (RLE; It), June 7-July 30. Current Entomological Literature Compiled by VENIA T. PHILLIPS, Librarian Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania pertaining to entomology, including all arthropods except Crustacea. Coverage will be world-wide as regards major contributions to systernatics as well as for all papers on morphology, physiology, em- bryology, etc. In addition, for species from the Americas and the Pacific (Nearctic, Neotropical and Polynesian regions) all minor contributions to taxonomy, distribution, etc., will also be recorded. This list gives references of the year 1952 unless otherwise noted. Continued papers, with few exceptions, are recorded only at their first installment. For other records of general literature and for economic literature, see the Bibliog- raphy of Agriculture, Washington, and the Review of Applied Entomology, Series A, London. For records of papers on medical entomology see Review of Applied Entomology, Series B. NOTE: The figures within brackets [ ] refer to the journal in w;hich the paper ap- peared, as numbered in the List of periodicals and serials published in our January and June issues. The number of the volume, and in some cases, the part, heft, &c. is followed by a colon (:). References to papers containing new forms or names not so stated in titles are followed by (*); if containing keys are followed by (k); papers pertaining ex- clusively to Neotropical species, and not so indicated in the title, have the symbol (S). Papers published in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS are not listed. GENERAL Beebe. W. Introduction to the ecology of the Arima Valley, Trinidad, B. W. I. [154] 37: 157-83, ill. Butler, J. M. Improved micro-dissecting instruments for helminthological and other zoological use. [Turtox News] 31 : 2-3. Foote, R. H. A method of making whole mounts, of mosquito larvae for special study. [80] 38: 494-5. Gaufin, A. R. and C. M. Tarzwell. Aquatic invertebrates Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 103 as indicators of stream pollution. [Pub. Health Rpt.| 67: 57-64. Gaul, A. T. The wonderful world of insects. Rine- hart & Co., N. Y. $4.00, 290 pp., 1953. Gross, G. F.- Desert insects (with discussion of environmental zones within the desert). [South Austr. Nat.] 27: 21-25, ill. Hiller, R. Uber Mikroaufnahmen von Bernsteininklusen. [28] 2: 458-60. Hofender, K. Verzeichnis der Strep- siptera und ihre Wirte (Nachtrag). [25] 2 : 473-521. Kloft, W. Eine Kaferzucht im mikrokopischen Praparat. [Mi- krokosmos] 42: 71-2. ill. Kruseman, G. Consideraciones entomologicas (El Salvador). [Comunicaciones Inst. Trop. Invest. Cient.] 4: 5-10. Kullenberg, B. Ophrys insec- tifera L. et les insectes. [107] 3: 53-70, ill., 1951. Kuschel, G. Los insectos de las islas Juan Fernandez. Introduc- tion. [Rev. Chilena Ent.] 2: 3-6. Le Marchand, S. Un pen de grammaire entomologique et . . . etymologique. 1 119] 13: 247-8. Maksimovic, M. Znacaj o'dnosa broj- nosti zivotinjskih polulacija i teorije regulacije brojnosti u sumskoj biocenozi (Population studies). [Zastita bilja, Beograd] 12: 87-99. Miller, R. R. X-ray photography as a tool in systematics. (Abstract.) [146] 1: 185. Pronin, G. F. Suggestions on preventing outbreaks of bark beetles in California pine forests. [Ill] 28: 186-88. Uhler, L. D. -How to make a cyanide killing jar. [Turtox News] 31 : 30. Viette, P. Une technique de preparation des armures genitales. [119] 13 : 249-52. Williams, C. B. Some notes on killing insects for collections and for scientific research. [58] 85: 271-79. Wood, S. F. and F. D. A water cooler for transporting heat sensitive animals, especially insects. 1 145] 51: 108-11, ill. Zinn, D. J. A useful inexpensive modification of the Berlese funnel. [Turtox News] 31 : 16-18, ill. BIOGRAPHIES, OBITUARIES Corporaal, Johannes Bastiaan, 1880-1952. Gestorben. [28] 2: 527.' (Obit.) Gigoux, Enrique Ernesto, 1863-1951. (Obit.) by Gabriel Olalquiaga. [Rev. Chilena Ent.] 2: 314-5. Meyer, Paul, 1876-1951. (Obit, with port, and bibl.) by O. Scheerpeltz. [Ent. Blatter] 47/48: 113-19. Pellett, Frank C., 1879-1951. -(Obit.) by Floyd R. Paddock. [Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci.] 59: 52-3. Perez, Charles, 1873-1952. (Obit.) by A. Caquot. [2| 235: 1566-67. Schmidt, Heinrich J. C., 1863-1948.- Meinen Sammelfreunde Heinrich Schmidt zum Gedachtnis. (Obit.) by Erich Uhmann. [Ent. Blatter] 47/48: 119-20. Storch, Otto, 1886-1951. (Obit, with port, and bibl.) by 104 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 1953 W. Marinelli. [104] 3: 487-93. Sulc, Karel, 1872-1952. Gestorben by Hans Sachtleben. [28] 2: 527-8. (Obit.) Wolffhiigel, Kurt Wolfgang, 1869-1951. (Obit.) by G. K. [Rev. Chilena Ent.) 2: 315-6. ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, MEDICAL Barnhart, C. S. and L. E. Chadwick A "fly factor" in attractant studies. [Science] 117:104-5,1953. Dobzhansky, T. Experimental evolution in Drosophila. [148] 4: 545-50. Eichler, W.- Behandlungstechnik parasitarer insekten. Leipzig, Akad. Verlagsgesell. Geest & Portig, 1952. 286 pp., 82 text figs. 19.60 DM. (Reviewed in [28] 2: 524-5.) Faust, R.- Untersuchungen zum Halterenproblem. [159] 63: 325-66. Ferris, G. F. On the comparative morphology of the An- nulata. A summing up. [90] 18: 2-15, 1953. Frobich, G. und K. Offhaus Ein neuer Nahrungsfaktor, der die Meta- morphose von Tribolius confusum Duv. (Tenebr., Col.) ermoglicht. [100] 39: 575. Gibson, C. L. and W. F. Ascoli. -The relation of Culicoides (Diptera : Heleiclae) to the transmission of Onchocerca volvatus. [80] 38: 315-20. Martini, E. Lehrbuch der medizinischen entomologie, 4. auflage. Mit beitragen von F. Pens und W. Reichmuth. Jena, G. Fischer, 694 pp., 318 text figs. 38 DM. 1952. (Review in [28] 2: 523-4.) Spiess, E. B., B. A. Terrile and U. Blumenheim. Physiological properties of gene arrange- ment carriers in Drosophila persimilis. II. Wing-beat fre- quency and wing dimensions. [62] 6: 421-27. Townsend, J. L, Jr. Genetics of marginal populations of Drosophila willistoni. [62] 6: 428-42. Virkki, N. Zur Zytologie eini- ger Scarabaeiden : Studien an der Spermatogenese. [Suom. Elain-ja Kasvit. Seura Vanamo, Julk.] 14, no. 3, 104 pp., ill., 1951. Vite, J. P. Temperaturversuche an Ips typo- graphus L. (Coleoptera.) [159] 149 : 195-206, ill. Wahab, A. A. Some notes on the segmentation of the scorpion, Buthus quinquestriatus (H.E.). [Egypt. Acad. Sci., Proc.] 7: 75-91, ill, 1951. ARACHNIDA AND MYRIOPODA Bolwig, N. Ob- servations on the behaviour and mode of orientation of hunting Solifugae. [55] 15: 239-40. Freeman, R. S. The biology and life history of Monoecestus Beddard, 1914 (Cestoda: Anoplocephaliclae) from the porcupine. (Aca- rina.) [80] 38: 111-29, ill. Goodnight, C. J. Speciation among the opiliones (Arachnida). (Abstract.) [146] 1: 183. Grandjean, F. Observations sur les oribates (24 ser.). (Includes preparation techniques.) [Paris. Mus. Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 105 Nat. d'Hist. Nat. Bulletin, 2d ser.] 24: 187-94. Henry, L. M. The nervous system of the Pycnogonida. [90] 18: 16-36, ill., 1953. Keegan, H. L. and R. A. Hedeen. Col- lections of ectoparasitic mites from Alaska. [80] 38: 360- 61. Liro, J. I. and H. Roivainen. Akamapunkit, Eriophyi- dae. [Suom. Elain-ja Kasvit. Seura Vanamo. Suomen Elaimet] no. 6, 281 pp., ill., 1951. Menzies, G. C. and R. W. Strandtmann. A new species of mite taken from nest of armadillo (Acarina Laelaptidae, Hypoaspinae). [56] 54: 265-73, ill. N0rgaard, E. On the ecology of two lycosid spiders (Pirata piraticus and Lycosa pullata) from a Danish sphagnum bog. [107] 3: 1-21, ill., 1951. Palmen, E. Sur- vey of the Diplopoda of Newfoundland. [Suom. Elain-ja Kasvit. Seura Vanamo, Julk.] 15, no. 1, 31 pp., ill. Pauly, F. Die "Copula" der Oribatiden (Moosmilben). [100] 39: 572-73. ill. Radford, C. D. A revision of the fur mites Myobiidae (Acarina) (suite). [Paris. Mus. Nat. d'Hist. Nat., Bull. 2d ser.] 24: 371-81, ill. (*). Roth, V. D. Notes and a new species in Cybaeina (Arachnida: Agelenidae). [Ill] 28: 195-201, ill. Strandtmann, R. W. Host-parasite relationships in avian nasal mites. (Abstract.) [146] 1: 184-5. Toumanoff, C. and C. Vago. L'effet de 1'alcalinite du milieu de culture sur la virulence de Bacillus cereus var. alesti Toum. et Vago, pour les vers a soie. [2] 235: 1715- 17. Tragardh, I. Acarina, collected by the Mangarevan expedition to southeastern Polynesia in 1934 by the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii. Mesostigmata. [25] 4: 45-90, ill. (*). Vachon, M. Remarques prelimi- naires sur quelques insectes parasites (Dipteres et Hy- menopteres) des cocons et oeufs d'araignees. [Paris. Mus. Nat. d'Hist. Nat., Bull. 2d ser.] 24: 200-3. Wehr, E. E.- Dermoglyphus elongatus (Megnin, 1877), a quill mite of the house canary in the U. S. (Acarina.) [80] 38: 548-9. Young, M. D. and R. W. Burgess. Susceptibility of Anopheles quadrimaculatus to Korean vivax malaria. [Pub. Health Rpt] 67: 14-16. SMALLER ORDERS Edmunds, G. F. Convergent evolution among the nymphs of mayflies (Ephemeroptera). (Abstract.) 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Snyder, T. E. Know your termites and local incidence of infestation. [Pest Control] 21 : 27-8, 1953. A new Rugitermes from Guatemala (Isoptera, Kalotermi- tidae). [56] 54: 303-05. Stark, H. E. The possible oc- currence of random fixation in a population of fleas. (Ab- stract.) [146] 1 : 183. Traub, R. and P. T. Johnson. Four new species of fleas from Mexico (Siphonaptera). [13] no. 1598: 1-28, ill. Valle, K. J. Sudenkorennot, Odonata. [Suom. elain-ja Kasvit. Seura Vanamo. Suomen Elaimet] no. 7, 159 pp., ill. (k). Woodland, J. T. The styli of the firebrat, Thermobia domestica (Packard). (Thysanura.) [Proc. Penn. Acad. Sci.] 26: 27-32, ill. Wygodzinsky, P.- Thysanura from Juan Fernandez Island. [Rev. Chilena Ent.] 1: 199-204 (*), 1951. Yates, J. Halothrips niger Osb., the red clover thrips (includes discussion of diapause). [N. Z. J. of Sci. & Tech. Sect. B] 34: 166-72. ill. ORTHOPTERA Albrecht, F. O. The reliability of the E/F ratio, a measure of phase status, in fresh and in dried locusts. [127] 21: 167-69. Beebe, W. J. Crane and S. Hughes-Schrader. An annotated list of the mantids of Trinidad, B. W. I. [154] 37: 245-58, ill. Chapman, K.- Ecological studies on solitary Acrididae in England and South Africa. [55] 15: 165-203, ill. Crane, J. A compara- tive study of innate defensive behavior in Trinidad mantids. [154] 37: 259-93, ill. Joly, P. Production d'adultoides chez Locusta migratoria L. [2] 235: 1555-57. Manil, A. A mantis in captivity. [Jour. Bengal Nat. Hist. Soc.] 25 : 184-88, ill. Pichler,'F. Uber den Bau und Bewegungs- mechanismus der Cerci bei Calliptamus italicus L. [104] 3 : 534-45, ill. HEMIPTERA Carvalho, J. C. M. Miridae (Neotropi- cal Miridae, 54) (Islas Juan Fernandez). [Rev. Chilena Ent.] 2: 21-28, ill. (*). Cumber, R. A. Studies on Oliarus Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 107 atkinsoni Myers (Cixiidae) vector of the "Yellow-leaf" dis- ease of Phormium tenax Forst. II. 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Studies on the ecology and phenology of the leafhoppers (Homoptera) of Raisio (s.w. Finland). [Suom. Elain-ja Kasvit. Seura Vanamo, Julkais.] 14: no. 6, 32 pp. Ruckes, H. Some scutelleroid Hemiptera of the Bahama Islands, British West Indies. [13] 1591: 1-9. Sailer, R. I. -The identity of Stenocephalus mexicanus Ashmead (Corei- dae). [56] 54: 301-03. Slater, J. A. An annotated list of the Lygaeidae of Iowa and Illinois. [Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci.] 59: 521^0. Wagner, E. and J. A. Slater. Concerning some holarctic Miridae. [56] 54: 273-81, ill. (*). Wygod- zinsky, P. Contribucion al conocimiento del genero Metap- terus Costa, 1860, de las Americas y de Juan Fernandez (Reduv.). [Rev. Chilena Ent.] 1: 113-28 (k*), 1951. Re- duviidae y Cimicidae Islas Juan Fernandez). [Rev. Chilena Ent] 2: 15-19, ill. (*). LEPIDOPTERA Beebe, W. A contribution to the life history of Colobtira (Gynaecia auct.) dirce dirce (Linn.) (Butterfly). [154) 37: 199-202, ill. Constantin, C. and C. Vago. (See Anatomy.) Fleming, H. The Saturnioidea (Moths) of Rancho Grande, North-central Venezuela. [154] 37: 203-7. Forster, W. Gespinstmotten (Hypono- meuta). [Kosmos] 49: 19-20, ill., 1953. Fox, R. M". The taxonomic value of male genitalia in the Ithomiidae. (Ab- stract.) [146] 1 : 185. Franz, E. Sphingidae de El Salva- dor (Resultados del viaje de exploracion Dr. Adolf Zilch 1951 en El Salvador, no. 2). [Comunicaciones Inst. Trop. 108 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 1953 Invest. Gent.] 4: 14-17. Herrera, J. Ausencia cle dimor- fismo sexual en Colias flaveola Blanchard 1852 (Pieridae). [Rev. Chilena Ent.] 2: 173-77, ill. Klots, A. B. and H. K. Clench. A new species of Strymon Huebner from Georgia. (Lycaenidae.) [13] no. 1600: 1-19, ill. McDunnough, J. H. New species and subspecies in the genus Hydriomena, Avith notes (Geometridae). [13] 1592: 1-17, ill. Marion, H. Ebouche d'une classification nouvelle des Pyraustidae. [119] 13: 260-70. Sperry, J. 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LXIV MAY, 1953 No. 5 Studies in Panama Culicoides (Diptera, Heleidae). III. A New Species Related to phlebotomus (Williston) l By WILLIS W. WIRTH 2 and FRANKLIN S. BLANTON 3 Twelve new species of Culicoides have been described in two previous papers (Jour. Wash. Acad. Sci. ; Jour. Parasit., in press) of this series, which is based primarily on material col- lected by the junior author in Panama. In this paper we wish to clarify the status of an important pest at Caribbean seaside re- sorts, Culicoides phlebotonnts (Williston), and to describe a new species closely allied to it from Panama. We are greatly indebted to Paul Freeman, of the British Mu- seum, for generously making available paratypes of Culicoides awiazonius Macfie and for critical comparisons of our specimens with the type of Ceratopogon phlebotomus Williston; to John Lane and O. P. Forattini, of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, for critical notes and for the gift of Brazilian specimens ; to Irving Fox, of the University of Puerto Rico, for Puerto Rican material and for valuable advice and suggestions ; and to Paul Woke, of the U. S. Public Health Service, for the gift of specimens. Un- less otherwise noted, all material studied is in the collection of the U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. 1 Published under the auspices of the Surgeon General, U. S. Army, who does not necessarily assume responsibility for the professional opin- ions expressed by the authors. 2 Entomologist, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, Agricul- tural Research Administration, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Wash- ington, D. C. 3 Lieutenant Colonel, MSC, U. S. Army Caribbean, Fort Clayton, Canal Zone. AY 18 1953 114 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 1953 Culicoides phlebotomus (Williston) (figures 1, 2) Ceratopogon phlebotomus Williston, 1896, Trans. Ent. Soc. London 3 : 281 ($; St. Vincent Island, British West Indies). Culicoides phlebotomus, Hoffman, 1925, Amer. Jour. Hyg. 5 : 285 (female redescr. ; Puerto Rico ; figure of wing) ; Painter, 1926, United Fruit Co. Med. Kept. 15:258 (Honduras; biology) ; Fox, 1942, Puerto Rico Jour. Publ. Hlth. & Trop. Med. 17:419 (pupa; Virgin Islands) ; Fox, 1946, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. 39:252 (St. Croix) ; Barbosa, 1947, An. Soc. Biol. Pernambuco 7 : 24 (Trinidad). Culicoides amasonius Macfie, 1935, Stylops 4: 52 (male, female; Tutoia, Brazil; male genitalia figured); Macfie, 1927, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (10)20:6 (Trinidad); Costa Lima, 1937, Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 32: 414 (Para, Brazil) ; Floch and Abonnenc, 1942, Inst. Pasteur Guyane Inini Publ. 37 : 3 (Cayenne, Fr. Guiana; figure of female wing, palpus) ; Bar- bosa, 1947, An. Soc. Biol. Pernambuco 7:11 (Pernambuco, Brazil). NEW SYNONYMY. Material examined: PUERTO Rico : Fort Buchanan, May, 1951, 1. Fox (light trap), 1 female. Guanica, June 22, 1952, F. S. Blanton (light trap), 14 females. MEXICO : Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, F. Knab, 1 female. HONDURAS: Puerto Castilla, Sept. 21, 1943, K. R. Maxwell (horse trap), 12 females. NICARAGUA: Corinto, Jan. 17-23, 1943, P. A. Woke (biting man and at light), 8 males, 27 females. PANAMA: Arraijan, Panama Prov., May 21, 1951, F. S. Blanton (light trap), 9 males, 70 females. Mojinga Swamp, Fort Sherman, Canal Zone, Nov. 14, Dec. 10, 1951, F. S. Blan- ton (light trap), 2 females. Rio Hato, Code Prov., Sept. 24, 1951, F. S. Blanton (light trap), 1 female. Palm Beach near San Carlos, Panama Prov., Sept. 17, 1952, F. S. Blanton (light trap), 7 females. VENEZUELA: Puerto Cabello, Carabobo, Nov. 12, 1951, L. W. Teller (biting man at beach), 1 female. BRAZIL: Tutoia, Maranhao, 1934, E. M. Lourie, 2 females [British Museum; paratypes of amasonius; one deposited in the U. S. National Museum through the courtesy of the British Mu- seum]. Conceicao Beach, Pernambuco, April, 1944, F. Bar- bosa, 1 male. Caponga, M. Cascavel, Ceara, Nov., 1939, 2 females. Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 115 As a result of the descriptions by Hoffman (1925) and Macfie (1935), this species has been well characterized. Indeed, it is puzzling that Macfie, having access to Williston's type of phlebotomus at London, and mentioning that species in his description of amazonius, but without giving characters for their separation, could have been misled into describing the Brazilian material as new. Probably the fact that he had no male speci- mens from any known localities for phlebotomus, together with the southern distribution of his specimens, prompted him to go ahead. In the recent keys to Neotropical Ciilicoides, these two species are separated only by the cordiform fourth tarsal seg- ment of ainasoniiis, which phlebotomus is said to lack (Costa Lima, 1937; Barbosa, 1947; Macfie, 1948). Therefore a care- ful study was made of the material listed above, especially that from Puerto Rico and Venezuela, localities which are adjacent to St. Vincent and at which plilebotomus should most likely oc- cur. All specimens were found to have the fourth tarsal seg- ment cordiform, of the same shape as the paratypes of amazonius from Brazil (also as in figure 3, of ivillistoni n. sp.). Mr. Paul Freeman informs us that the same is true of Williston's type of phlebotomus in the British Museum. The only difference which could be found between the three Brazilian lots and those from farther north were that in the former the wings were not so strongly infuscated, the wing being mostly yellowish proximad of the r-m crossvein, a character obviously not of specfic value. The wing of a female from Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico (fig. 1), shows the more conspicuous extreme of markings. One of the Tutoia paratypes was found to have three, subequal, almost spherical, and rather small, spermathecae, although all the rest of the specimens examined, including the other paratype, pos- sessed the usual two oval, and rather large, spermathecae. No differences could be found in the genitalia, which are shown in figure 2. For these reasons amazonius is considered unquestion- ably a synonym of phlebotomus. 116 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 1953 Culicoides willistoni Wirth and Blanton, new species (figures 3-6) Female. Length 1.2 mm., wing 1.0 mm. by 0.5 mm. Head black, the vertex grayish pruinose ; eyes contiguous, bare. Antennae with flagellar segments in proportion of 15 : 12 : 12 : 12 : 12 : 12 : 12 : 12 : 18 : 18 : 20 : 20 : 35 ; distal sensory tufts present on segments 3-10. Palpal segments in proportion of 10:25:30:10:10; third segment slightly swollen, without pit, the sensoria scattered over mesal side of distal half of seg- ment (fig. 5). Mesonotum densely bluish-gray pruinose, with prominent pattern of scattered brown dots, each dot surrounding the base of one of the stout, brown, mesonotal hairs ; the brown areas often confluent on middle of anterior margin and on sublateral areas between the suture and wing bases. Scutellum bluish-gray pruinose, dark brown in middle ; with four long hairs. Post- scutellum and pleura blackish with variable grayish pollinosity. Legs brown ; bases of femora pale and well defined, narrow, sub- apical pale rings on femora and sub-basal rings on tibiae ; apices of hind tibiae pale ; tarsi pale ; fourth tarsal segments cordiform (fig. 3). Wing (fig. 4) with anterior radial cells very narrow, the sec- ond short ; macrotrichiae confined to a few at wing tip in apices of cells R 5 and M 2 . Wing deeply infuscated with brownish, a blackish stigmal spot over second radial cell and distal half of first ; large yellowish areas at wing base and over r-m crossvein to slightly behind base of anterior media. Prominent bluish- white spots as follows : in cell R 5 , a small, round spot behind sec- ond radial cell, a second spot just past apex of costa on anterior margin, a third just past this one in middle of cell R 5 and a fourth, hourglass-shaped spot halfway between the third and wing tip with the anterior portion broadly meeting wing margin. Vein M! narowly bordered on most of its length to apex with light gray ; an elongate white spot straddling middle of vein M 2 ; an elongate white spot on mediocubitus near wing base ; an elongate white spot in cell M 2 just behind anterior media before the fork; a smaller oval spot just ahead of mediocubital fork; Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 117 2a PHLEBOTOMUS WILLISTONI EXPLANATION OF FIGURES Culicoides phlcbotomus. Fig. 1. Female wing (Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico). 2. Male genitalia, ventral view, parameres drawn separately in 2a (Arraijan, Panama). Culicoides zvillistoni. Fig. 3. Distal tarsal segments of female, showing cordate fourth segment. 4. Female wings. 5. Female palpus. 6. Male genitalia, ventral view. 6a. Parameres drawn separately. 6b. Lateral view to show details of aedeagus and parameres. 118 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 1953 small, rounded, white spots well back from wing margin in apices of cells M 1? M 2 and M 4 ; anal cell with an elongate white spot just behind mediocubital fork and a diffuse, narrow streak along wing margin in basal half of cell. Halteres white, the stems brownish. Abdomen dark brown, narrow apices of tergites with pale gray margins. Spermathecae two, slightly oval to pear-shaped, sub- equal, the bases of the ducts sclerotized a very short distance; rudimentary third spermatheca and ring present as usual. Male. Similar to the female but smaller, with the usual sex- ual differences ; antennal plumes yellowish, longer than in phi ebot omits. Genitalia (fig. 6) : Ninth sternite with shallow, rounded mesal excavation ; ninth tergite tapered, with very short apicolateral processes. Basistyles with ventral roots strongly constricted at bases, the apices broadly expanded, boathook-shaped ; dorsal roots well developed, slender ; disti- styles strongly bent a third of way to apices, the latter more slender than in phlebotomus. Aedeagus with short, broad, transverse basal arms, a short, stout, pointed median process projecting anteriorly from between them; posterior margins of basal arms with short, platelike expansions ; the aedeagus bearing posteriorly a straight, spatulate, distally truncated, dorsal blade, with a strong, ventrally curved process arising from the base with its distally pointed apex curving towards the dorsal blade and about two thirds as long. (In phlebotomus the ventral process is as long as the dorsal and is more strongly curved, with its apex often passing behind to the dorsal side of the broader, more spatu- late, dorsal blade (fig. 2).) Parameres with bases abruptly bent and bearing strong knobs, each with a distinct triangular lobe on inner side at base of stem, then slightly narrowed and bent outward a short distance, then abruptly bent ventrad with slender, simple, pointed apex. Holotype $, allotype, Rio Hato, Code Province, PANAMA, January 15, 1952, F. S. Blanton (light trap) (Type No. 61630, U.S.N.M.). Paratypes: 27 J*J\ 475$, same data as type; 6 males, 20 fe- males, Palm Beach near San Carlos, Panama Province, Panama, Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 119 September 17, 1952, F. S. Blanton (light trap); 2 1953 than the fourth; there is a small node between the second and third segments." Actually the first segment of antenna is plainly shorter than other three together (130:150+). The first segment is not four times as long as the second. In the type the first segment is to the second as 170 : 50. There is nothing in Kirkaldy's generic description to justify its separation from Brachymetra. However the species C. bakeri is considerably larger than any described Brachymetra ; the first tarsal segment of the front leg is plainly longer than the second, while in all Brachymetra it is plainly shorter; the front tibia is conspicuously expanded at its tips, which is broadly excavate on its mesal surface and sulcate on the outer surface while in Brachymetra the tibia is but little expanded ; the middle and hind femora are considerably longer than the body whereas in Brachy- metra they are but slightly, if any, longer. Therefore I am rec- ognizing Charmatometra Kirkaldy as a genus. Kirkaldy's two descriptions of C. bakeri are not quite accu- rate. The front femora are not "cylindric" but thicker in one diameter than the other. His measurements of antennal and leg segments are also misleading. There are variations to be sure but the description should agree with the type at least. The description states that the first antennal segment is four times as long as the second and in the generic description above that it is subequal to the other three segments together. Here are the relative lengths of the antennal segments of the type and seven other specimens. 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Type $ 170 50 <$ 170 55 $ 150 50 $ 145 55 1953 A Second Case of Lacebug Bite (Hemiptera: Tingidae) Although numerous species of hemipterons have been re- ported to inflict bites upon human beings, most of them have been predacious forms, and only recently have the phytophagous lace- bugs been added to the list. Sailer (1945, Journ. Kansas Ent. Soc., v. 18) gives a first-hand account of having been bitten re- peatedly by Corythucha cydoniae (Fitch) at Washington, D. C. ; this seems to be the only instance in the literature relating to a member of the Tingidae. It is now possible to put on record notice of the bite of a sec- ond species of tingid, CorytJutcJia ciliata (Say), the normal host of which is the sycamore tree. On June 17, 1950, while reading on the front porch of my home at Clifton Forge, Virginia, I be- came conscious of a slight burning sensation on the back of my left hand, not dissimilar in effect to the bite of a mosquito. In- vestigation revealed the presence of a specimen of ciliata, busily engaged in sinking its beak into my skin. Curious about the outcome, and admiring the ambition of such a tiny creature, I suffered it to proceed, unmolested. After a few minutes it with- drew its beak and, just as did the specimen of cydoniae in the ac- count cited above, cast about for another likely spot to probe. Lacking Dr. Sailer's forbearance, however, I interrupted the ac- tivities and blew the lacebug away. In my case, there was no particular itching sensation rather a burning one and the bite was commemorated by a red spot which persisted for more than a week. Comparatively speaking, the lacebug bite was somewhat less painful than those inflicted by the common anthocorid Orius insidiosHS, a much smaller species. Being an entomophagous form, however, Orius is probably endowed with a much more potent salivary secretion. There remains unanswered the question of what manner of spiritual or material satisfaction rewards the lacebugs from their ventures into anthropophagism. RICHARD L. HOFFMAN Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 177 Current Entomological Literature Compiled by VENIA T. PHILLIPS, Librarian Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania pertaining to entomology, including all arthropods except Crustacea. Coverage will be world-wide as regards major contributions to systematics as well as for all papers on morphology, physiology, em- bryology, etc. In addition, for species from the Americas and the Pacific (Nearctic, Neotropical and Polynesian regions) all minor contributions to taxonomy, distribution, etc., will also be recorded. This list gives references of the year 1953 unless otherwise noted. Continued papers, with few exceptions, are recorded only at their first installment. For other records of general literature and for economic literature, see the Bibliog- raphy of Agriculture, Washington, and the Review of Applied Entomology, Series A, London. For records of papers on medical entomology see Review of Applied Entomology, Series B. NOTE: The figures within brackets [ ] refer to the journal in which the paper ap- peared, as numbered in the List of periodicals and serials published in our January and June issues. The number of the volume, and in some cases, the part, heft, &c. is followed by a colon (:). References to papers containing new forms or names not so stated in titles are followed by (*); if containing keys are followed by (k); papers pertaining ex- clusively to Neotropical species, and not so indicated in the title, have the symbol (S). Papers published in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS are not listed. GENERAL Bergold, G. H. On the nomenclature and classification of insect viruses. [Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci.] 56: 495-516, ill. Black, L. M. Viruses that reproduce in plants and insects. [Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci.] 56: 398-413. Chabaud, A. G. and M.-T. Choquet. Allometrie des variants sexuels chez les Ixodidae. [24] 89: 140-46, ill., 1952. Chil- son, L. M. Insect records from Johnston Island. [69] 15: 81-84. Davis, C. J. New host and insect records from the Island of Hawaii. [69] 15: 85-86. Fagel, G. A propos de description. . . . [136] 88: 286-88, ill., 1952. Given, B. B. General report on a search for parasites of Melolonthinae in Australia. [New Zealand Jour. Sci. Tech., Ser. B] 34: 322-40, ill. Golbach, R. Notas sobre algunos insectos teratologicos. [8] 10: 189-98, ill., 1952. Janssens, E.- Zoogeographie et convergence. (Considers Leptogastrinae and Trechinae.) [Bull. Inst. Roy. Sci. Nat. Belg.] 28, no. 51. 21 pp., ill., 1952. Knipling, E. F. The greater hazard- insects or insecticides. [76] 46: 1-7. Knudsen, J. P. A new method for storing papered Lepidoptera. (Freezing.) 1 85] 7: 27. Krauss, N. L. H. Insects and other inverte- brates from Palmyra Atoll and Christmas Island. [69] 15: 217-20. Notes on insects associated with Lantana in Cuba. 1 69] 15 : 123-25. Lees, A. D. Resistance and susceptibility of plants to insect attack. [Science Progress] 41: 316-20. Nachtwey, R. L'instinct chez les insectes, traduit de I'allc- mand par Odette Amson. Hachette, Paris, 1952, 224 pp.. 47 figs. (Review in [Rev. franc. d'ent.J 20: 87-88.) Sabro- 178 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jutyj 1953 sky, C. W. How many insects are there? [146] 2: 31-36. Sarma, P. S. Easy technique of dissecting the mouth-parts of sucking-lice (Anoplura). [Current Science] 22: 47. Schilder, F. A. Einftihrung in die Biotaxonomie (Formen- kreislehre) ; die Entstehung der Arten durch raumlichw Son- derung. Jena, G. Fischer, 1952, 162 pp., ill. (Review by S. G. Kiriakoff [136] 88: 316, 1952.) Steinhaus, E. A. Tax- onomy of insect viruses. [Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci.] 56: 517- 30, ill. Usinger, R. L., and I. La Rivers. The insect life of Arno Atoll, Marshall Islands. [Atoll Research Bull.] no. 15, 28 pp. Weber, P. W. Recent liberations of bene- ficial insects in Hawaii II. [69] 15 : 127-30. Weiss, H. B. -Thirteen entomological pamphlets, 1655-1846. [101] 60: 221-24, 1952. BIOGRAPHIES, OBITUARIES Alluaud, Charles, 1861-1949. (Biogr. with portrait and bibl.) by R. Jeannel. [137] 121: 1-22, 1952. Blair, Kenneth Gloyne, 1882-1952. -Obituary, with portrait, by B. M. Hobby. [142] 4: 126-27. Doets, Cornelis, 1894-1952. Obituary by A. Dia- konoff. [85] 7: 24. Hoffmann, Emil. Biographical notice, with portrait on his 75th birthday, by H. Reisser. [Zeit. Wiener Ent. Ges.] 37: 137-38, 1952. King, Joseph Lyonel, 1888-1952. (Obit, with port.) [76] 46: 189. Schaffer, Jacob Christian, 1718-1790. Biography by H. B. Weiss. [101] 60: 241-44, 1952. Talbot, George," 1882-1952. Obitu- ary by C. L. Remington. [85] 7: 24. Walton, William Randolph, 1873-1952. (Obit., with port.) by J. S. Wade, W. A. Baker and F. W. Poos. [56] 55 : 103-08. Weinman, Carl John, 1915-1952. (Obit, with port.) by H. B. Mills. [76] 46: 188. ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, MEDICAL Chadbourne, D. S. and C. F. Rainwater. Histological effects of calcium arsenates on larval tissues of the bollworm (Noctuidae). [76] 46: 44-48, ill. Christensen, P. J. H. Embryology. (See Lepidoptera.) Clark, E. W. The calcium and mag- nesium content in the hemolymph of certain insects. [113| 26: 101-07. Eassa, Y. E. E. The development of imaginal buds in the head of Pieris brassicae Linn. [126] 103 : 39-50, ill. Gebhardt, H. Die Lage der wichtigsten Thermore- zeptoren bei einigen Insekten. [159] 63: 558-92. Gilbert, I. H., M. D. Couch and W. C. McDuffie. Development of resistance to insecticides in natural populations of house flies. [76] 46: 48-50. Goldschmidt, R. Heredity within a sex-controlled structure of Drosophila. |78J 122: 53-95. Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL XK\YS 179 Harnish, O. Stiulien zum Gaswechsel cler Larva von Pro- diamesa olivacea Meig. [ Riol. Zentralbl.] 72: 152-61. Holm, A. Experimentelle untersuchungen iiber die ent- wicklung und entwicklungsphysiologie des spinnenem- bryos (Araneida). [Zoologiska bidrag fran Uppsala] 29: 293-424, ill., 1952. Hsu, ^W. S. The origin of proteid yolk. (See Diptera.) Kennington, G. S. The effects of re- duced atmospheric pressure on populations of Tribolium castaneum and Tribolium confusum. [113] 26: 179-203. Lees, A. D. Xew aspects of bee behaviour. [Science Progress] 41 : 313-16. Levenbook, L. The variation in phosphorus compounds during metamorphosis of the blow- fly, Calliphora erythrocephala Meig. [75] 41 : 313-34. Lhoste, J. Donnees histo-physiologiques sur les cellules neurosecretrices cephaliques et le complexe retrocerebral de Forficula auricularia L. [24] 89: 169-83, ill.. 1952. Makino, S. and K. Saito. Results of gonadectomy and gonadal transplantation in the sex races of Lymantria dispar. [85] 7: 7-8. Nater, H. Yergleichend-morpho- logische Untersuchung des ausseren Geschlechtsapparates innerhalb cler Gattung Drosophila. [158] 81: 437-86, 1952. Petersen, B. and R. Weber, A comparison between growth ratio and geographic variation on allometry in Omocestus viridulus L. female. [Zoologiska Bidrag fran Uppsala] 29: 39-43, 1949. Pielou, D. P. and R. F. Glasser. Survival of Macrocentrus ancylivorus Rob., a parasite of the Oriental fruit moth, on different concentrations of various sugar solu- tions. [44] 31 : 121-24. Possompes, B. Recherches ex- perimentales sur le determinisme de la metamorphose de Calliphora erythrocephala .Meig. [23] 89 : 203-364, ill.. 1952. Tanada, Y. Viruses, microsporidea, and bacilli. (See Lepidoptera.) Wigglesworth, V. B. The origin of sen- sory neurones in an insect Rhodnius prolixus. |H6] 94: 93-112, ill. ARACHNIDA AND MYRIOPODA Biraben, M.- "Fernandezina," nuevo genero de Palpimanidae (Araneae). 1 8] 12: 545-49, ill.. 1951. Chaubaud and Choquet. Ixodi- dae. (See General.) Fuller, H. S. The mite larvae of the family Trombiculidae in the Oudemans collection : taxon- omy and medical importance. [Zool. Yerhand.. Leiden] No. 18. 261 pp., ill. 1952. Gering, R. L. Structure and function of the genitalia in some American agelenid spiders. [131] 121: no. 4, 84 pp., ill. Goodnight, C. J. and M. L.- The opilionid fauna of Chiapas, Mi-xico. and adjacent areas 180 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July, 1953 (Arachnoidea, Opiliones). [13] 1610, 81 pp., ill. Green- berg, B. New Labidostommidae with keys to the New World species (Acarina). [101] 60: 195-204, ill., 1952. Hoff, C. C. Two new species of pseudoscorpions from Illinois. [71] 45: 188-95, ill. Holm, A. Araneida. (See Anatomy.) Keifer, H. H. The eriophyid mites of Cali- fornia (Acarina: Eriophyidae). [41] 2: 1-123, ill., 1952 (k). Krishnan, G. On the cuticle of the scorpion Palamneus swammerdami. [116] 94: 11-22, ill. Manglitz, G. R. and E. N. Cory. Biology and control of Brevipalpus australis (Acarina: Pseudoleptidae). [76] 46: 116-19. Mitchell, R. D. A new species of Lundbladia and remarks on the family Hydryphantidae (water mites). [12] 49: 159-70, ill. Postner, M. Das Mannchen von Parasitus americanus Berlese 1906 (Parasitidae, Acarina). [159] 150: 25-30, ill. Schubart, O. Diplopoda de Pirassununga IV. Adenda a fauna regional. [48] 3: 403-20, ill, 1952. Vachon, M.- The biology of scorpions. [Endeavor] 12: 80-89, illus. Wharton, G. W. and H. S. Fuller. A manual of the chig- gers. The biology, classification, distribution, and impor- tance to man of the larvae of the family Trombiculidae (Acarina). [Memoir, Ent. Soc. Washington] no. 4, 185 pp., illus., 1952. SMALLER ORDERS Barlet, J. Ressemblances entre le thorax de Nicoletis (Thysanoure Lepismatidae) et celui d'autres apterygotes. [Bull. Inst. Roy. Sci. Nat. Belg.] 28, no. 54, 8 pp., ill., 1952. Bianchi, F. A. Thysanoptera of Samoa. [69] 15: 93-108, ill. Buchholz, K~. F. Eine neue Antidythemis-art (Libellulinae, Odonata) mit Bemer- kungen ueber das Genus Antidythemis Kirby und A. tra- maeiformis Kirby. [Bull. Inst. Roy. Sci. Nat. Belg.] 28, no. 35, 11 pp., ill., 1952 (P). Day, W. C. A new mayfly genus from California. [HI] 29: 19-24, ill. Demoulin, G. -Les Behningia Lestage 1929, et leur position dans la classification des ephemeres. [Bull. Inst. Roy. Sci. Nat. Belg.] 28, no. 21, 15 pp., illus., 1952. Contribution a 1'etude des Ephoronidae Euthyplociinae (Ephemeropteres). [Bull. Inst. Roy. Sci. Nat. Belg.] 28, no. 45, 22 pp., ill., 1952. Essai de nouvelle cle pour la determination des Oligoneurii- dae (Ephemeropteres). [Bull. Inst. Roy. Sci. Nat. Belg.] 28, no. 43, 4 pp., 1952. Sur les affinites siphlonuridiennes du genre Metreletus Demoulin, 1938 (fiphemeropteres). [Bull. Inst. Roy. Sci. Nat. Belg.] 28, no. 31, 11 pp., ill., 1952. Friauf, J. J. Dermaptera. (See Anatomy.) Henson, H. On the external morphology of the neck and thorax of Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 181 Forficula auricularia L. (Dermaptera). [126] 104: 25-37. ill. Kimmins, D. E. New Hawaiian Coniopterygidae (Neuroptera). [69] 15: 37-39, ill. Lieftinck, M. A. The larval characters of the Protoneuridae (Odon.), with special reference to the genus Selysioneura Forster, and with notes on other Indo-Australian genera. [Treubia] 21 : 641-84, ill. Liischer, M. The termite and the cell. [Scient. Amer.] 188, no. 5 : 74-78, ill. Ross, H. H. and E. W. King. A key to the world genera of the caddisfly tribe "Hydrobiosini" (Rhyacophilidae). [8] 12: 501-08, ill., 1951 (*k). Tohm, G. L. Some Siphonaptera from Pima County, Arizona. [Ill] 29: 42. Wehrle, L. P. A host index of some Arizona fleas (Siphonaptera). [Ill] 29: 37-41. Wray, D. L. A new Prospinanura (Collembola) from North Carolina. [36] 48: 40-41. Two new North American Isotoma (Collem- bola) and key to eyeless forms. [36] 48: 54-56. Wygod- zinsky, P. Apuntes sobre "Thysanura" americanas. [8] 11: 435-58, ill, 1951 (*k). ORTHOPTERA Chopard, L. Notes sur les orthop- teroides de Madagascar. IV. Faune de la foret de mousses du Tsaratanana. [72] 1: 463-516, ill., 1952. Dresden, D. and E. D. Nijenhuis. On the anatomy and mechanism of motion of the mesothoracic leg of Periplaneta americana. [Proc. Neder. Akad. Wetens. Ser. C] 56: 39-47, ill. Ergene, S. Homochromer Farbwechsel ohne Hautung bei Heusch- recken auf schwarzem Untergrund. [158] 81: 604-09, ill. Fortescue-Foulkes, J. 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[69] 15: 87-91, ill. 182 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS u, 1953 Barber, H. G. The genus Pachybrachus in the United States and Canada with the description of two new species (Lygaeidae). [101] 60: 211-20, 1952 (k). A new sub- family, genus, and species belonging to the family Enico- cephalidae. [13] 1614, 4 pp. Bray, D. F. Life history and control of Cinara winonkae (Aphididae). [76] 46: 103-07. Cachan, P. Les Pentatomidae de Madagascar. [72] 1 : 231-462, ill., 1952. Chuchuy, M. E. Un insecto perjudicial del malvon Sibovia sagata (Sign.) (Jassidae). [8] 10: 99- 104, ill., 1952. Drake, C. J. American species of Ranatra annulipes Stal group. [152] 43: 109-17, ill. (*). The genus Parada Horvath (Tingidae). [115] 59: 143-47, 1952. Dum- bleton, L. J. A note on Aleuroplatus (Ochramus) samo- anus Laing (Aleyrodidae). [69] 15 : 21-23, ill. Essig, E. O. Aphid miscellany. [Ill] 29: 1-13. The orchard grass aphid, Hyalopteroides humilis (Walker). [Ill] 29.: 17-18. Frost, S. W Miridae from light traps. [101] 60: 237-40, 1952. Hottes, F. C. Seasonal variations in Myzocallis calif ornicus Baker (Aphididae). [Ill] 29: 43-46, ill. Hus- sey, R. F. Concerning some North American Coreidae. [36] 48: 29-34 (k). Lallemand, V. and H. Synave. Con- tribution a 1'etude des homopteres. II. Determination d'homopteres de 1'Institut royal des sciences naturelles de Belgique. [Bull. Inst. Roy' Sci. Nat. Belg.] 28, no. 29, 1952 (S). Leston, D. A note on oligomery in Lygaeidae. [Ent. Gazette] 4: 133-34, ill. Martin, B. A. Temporary elimination of the autosomes from the meiotis spindle in a halyinid pentatomid. [79] 92: 207-40, ill. Ross, H. T.- Another European cherry leafhopper in North America. [76] 46: 177, ill. Wigglesworth, V. B. The origin of sen- sory neurones in an insect Rhodnius prolixus. [116] 94: 93-112, ill. Wygodzinsky, P. Sobre algunos Cryptostem- matidae, principalmente de la Argentina. [8] 10: 51-74, ill., 1952. LEPIDOPTERA Avinoff, A. and W. R. Sweadner.- The Karanasa butterflies, a study in evolution. (Annals Carnegie Museum, v. 32, art. 1, 250 pp.. 17 pis., 1951.) (Review by E. G. Munroe [85] 7: 16-23.) Beebe, R.- Sampling Michigan Lepidoptera by the fixed light trap. [85] 7: 28. Bourquin, F. Cuatro notas sobre metamor- fosis de microlepitopteros (Aristotelia perplexa, Parastega hemisigna, Porphyrosela sp., Darlia praetexta). [8] 12: 509-18, ill., 1951. Metamorfosis de "Amastus prosenii" Kohler 1949 (Arctiidae). [8] 12: 527-32, ill., 1951. Meta- morfosis de "Megalopyge lanceolata" Dogn. 1923 (Megalo- Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 183 pygidae). [8] 12: 533-38, ill.. 1951. Notas sobre la metamorfosis de "Antispastis clarkei" Pastrana 1951 (Glyphipterygidae). [8] 12: 523-26, ill., 1951. Bradley, J. D. New microlepidoptera from Fiji. [69] 15: 109-14, ill. Chadbourne and Rainwater. (See Anatomy.) Chris- tensen, P. J. H. The embryonic development of Coch- lidion limacodes Hufn. (Fam. Cochlididae) ; a study on living dated eggs. [Biol. skr. Danske Vidensk. Selskab] 6: no. 9, 46 pp., ill. Clarke, J. F. G. The moths of the genus "Coptotelia" Zeller (Oecophoridae). [8] 11: 335-52, ill. 1951 (*). Diakonoff, A. Microlepidoptera of New Guinea ; results of the Third Archbold Expedition, 1938-39. [Verh. K. Necler. Akad. Weten. Afd. Naturk.] 2d ser. 49: no. 1, 167 pp.. ill., 1952. Eassa, Y. E. E. (See Anatomy.) Fender, K. M. and J. H. Baker. Notes on the migration of Nymphalis californica. [85] 7: 15. Fraisse, R. La croissance de la tete chez la larve du Bombyx mori L. en fonction du regime alimentaire. [2] 236: 1613-14. Franz, E. Sphingidae aus El Salvador. [Senckenbergiana] 33: 253-55, 1952. Fulton, M. Migration of the monarch but- terfly through Chicago. [85] 7: 28. Gray, P. H. H. A note on the colors of pupae of Pieris rapae developed under artificial conditions. [85] 7: 5-6. Hayward, K. J. Clave para los generos y especies argentinos de la familia Nympha- lidae. [8] 10: 401-21, 1952. Una clave para les subfamilias, generos y especies argentinos de la familia Heliconiidae. [8] 10: 311-13, 1952. Guia para le clasification de las especies y formas argentinas de la familia "Papilionidae." [8] 12: 279-330. ill.. 1951. Mas notas sobre ninfalidos Argentinos (Nymphalidae). [8] 10: 285-90. 1952. Kiria- koff, S. G. De gehoororganen en de systematick der Lepi- doptera. [57] 14: 246-50, ill. Knowlton, G. F. Observa- tions of Celerio lineata, the white-lined sphinx, in Utah. [85] 7: 11-12. Knudsen, J. P. (See General.) Kohler, P. Las Noctuidae argentinas, subfamilia "Cucullianae." [8] 12: 135-82, 1951. Komai, T. Composition of wild popula- tions in the lycaenid butterfly Neozephyrus taxila. [15] 87: 87-95. ill. Kusnezov, N. Atticonviva Busck en la Argentina (Tineidae). [8] 10: 281-82. 1952. Makino and Saito. (See Anatomy.) Mather, B. A migration of Ascia monuste in Mississippi. [85j 7: 13-14. Pastrana, J. A. Una especie -nueva de "Glyphipterygidae" de la Argentina. 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Cocoon construction by the Ce- cropia silkworm. I. The role of the external environment. [Behaviour, Leiden] 5: 141-56, ill. Whittaker, R. H.- Notes on a migration of Nymphalis californica. [85] 7: 9-10. DIPTERA Aczel, M. L. Catalogo de la subfamilia anericana "Pterocallinae" (Otitidae). [8] 11: 397-433, 1951. Further revision of the genus Xanthaciura Hendel (Trypetidae). [8] 10: 245-80, ill., 1952 (*k). Generos y species neotropicales de la tribus 'Trypetini." II. Dos generos y una especie nuevos. [8] 12: 253-78, ill., 1951. Morfologia externa y division sistematica de las "Tanype- zidiformes" con sinopsis de las especies argentinas de "Tylidae" (Micropeziclae) y "Neriidae." [8] 11: 483-589, ill., 1951. Revision parcial del genero americano Paracantha Coquillett (Trypetidae). [8] 10: 199-44, ill.. 1952 (*). Suplemento al "catalogo de la familia Trypetidae de la region neotropical.' [8] 12: 117-33, 1951. ' Adachi, M. S. -Preliminary studies in Hawaiian Dolichopodidae. Part I. 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W. and A. Wilkes. Somatic chromosomes of higher Diptera. I. Differentiation of tachinid parasites. [44] 31 : 125-65, ill. Brundin, L. Zur Kenntnis der Taxo- nomie und Metamorphose der Chironomidengattungen Pro- tanypus Kieff., Prodiamesa Kieff. und Monodiamesa Kieff. [ Rept. Institute of Freshwater Research, Drottningholm] 33: 39-53, ill., 1952. Burton, G. J. Some techniques for mounting mosquito eggs, larvae, pupae and adults on slides. [92] 13: 7-15. Dietz, R. A. Field notes on Neorhyncho- cephalus sackenni (\Yilliston) in Missouri (Nemestrinidae). [36] 48: 38-39. Dodd, A. P. Observations on the stem gall fly (Procecidochares utilus Stone) of Pamakani, Eupa- torium glandulosum. [69] 15: 41-44. Dodge, H. R. Two sarcophagid flies new to Hawaii. [69] 15: 131-34, ill. Dupuis, C. Contributions a 1'etude des Phasiinae cimico- phages (Larvaevoridae). XV. Donnees sur les Leucosto- matina et, en particulier, Leucostoma analis (Meigen) s. str. [17] 28: 64-97, ill. Fairchild, G. B. A note on Hertigia hertigi Fairchild and description of the female (Psycho- didae). [56] 55: 101-02, ill. Farr, T. H. A note on the swarming habits of Ogcodes dispar (Macq.) (Cyrtidae). [36] 48: 39-40. Fleschner, C. A. and D. W. Ricker. An empidid fly predaceous on citrus red mites. [76] 46: 155. Fluke, C. L. The genus "Dolichogyna" (Syrphidae). [8] 12: 465-78, ill., 1951 (*). Foote, R. H. The pupal mor- phology and chaetotaxy of the Culex subgenera Melano- conioi/and Mochlostryax. [56] 55: 89-100. Frick, K. E. -Further studies on Hawaiian Agromyzidae, with descrip- tions of four new species. [69] 15: 2~07-15 (k). Frohne, W. C. Another snipe fly pest in Alaska. [92] 13: 25. A factor influencing male mosquito and midge swarms. [92] 13: 27. Gilbert, Couch and McDuffie. (See Anat- omy.) Hardy, D. E. The Argentine "Biblionidae." |S| 12: 343-76, ill., 1951 (*k). New Hawaiian Tipulidae. [69] 15: 55-58, ill. Notes on the Shannon types of Dorilaidae from Argentina (Pipunculidae). 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Nuevos hechos rela- cionados con "Guimaresia romanai" (Del Ponte) (Nycteri- Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS biidae). [8] 12: 551-61, ill., 1951. Un representante raro del grupo de los dipteros pupiparos. Una especie del genero Ascodipteron, parasite de Miniopterus schreibersi Kuhl. [8] 10: 479-87, ill., 1952. Shaw, F. R. A review of some of the more important contributions to our knowledge of the systematic relationships of the Sciaridae. [69] 15: 25-32. ill. Summers, T. E. and E. W. Stafford. Diabrotica unde- cimpunctata howardi parasitized by Celatoria diabroticae (Tachinidae). [76] 46: 180. Thompson, G. A. Observa- tions of early spring activity of Culiseta inornata (Willis- ton) (Culicidae) in south central Nebraska. [92] 13: 17. Townsend, J. I. To obtain Drosophila willistoni from the Greater Antilles in order to compare the chrosomal poly- morphism with that reported from other neotropical areas. (Report on Grant.) [Yearbook, 'Amer. Phil. Soc.] 1952: 167-68. Van den Bosch and Haramoto. 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The immature stages of Ha- waiian Cerambycidae, with a key to larvae. [69] 15: 135- 58, ill. Emden, F. I. van. The larva of Morion and its systematic position (Carabidae). [69 1 15: 51-54. ill. Fisher, W. S. New cerambvcid beetles belonging to the tribe Rhinotragini. [Ill] 29: 14-17. Gardiner, P. The morphology and biology of Ernobius mollis L. (Anobiidae). 1 126] 104: 1-24, ill. Gilbert, E. E. Sexual dimorphism and synonymy in Anthonomus (Anthonomorphus) (Curculioni- dae) . ' 1 1 1 1 ] 29 : 41 . Given, B. B. (See General) Gressitt, J. L. The genus Glaucvtes in the Pacific (Cerambycidae). [69| 15: 195-99, ill. (k). Longicorn beetles of" China, j Longicornia, ed. by P. Lepesmej 2, 667 pp., ill, 1951. 188 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [J u ty> 1953 Guerin, J. Description de quatre nouvelles especes de Megalopodidae de la "Zoologische sammlung des Baye- rischen Staates," Miinchen. [48] 3: 435-42, ill., 1952 (*S). Heifer, J. R. Two new Hippomelas (Buprestidae). [Ill] 29 : 34-36. Janssens, E. (See General.) Jolivet, P. Notes biometriques stir quelques Chrysomeloidea. [Bull. Inst. Roy. Sci. Nat. Belg.] 28, no. 44, 8 pp., 1952. Kennington, G. S. (See Anatomy.) Knowlton, G. F. Dynastes Granti Horn in Utah (Scarabaeidae). [36] 48: 49. Lane, M. C. Some generic corrections in the Elateridae, IV. [56] 55: 86-89. McDermott, F. A. Further data regarding Jamai- can Lampyridae, in extension- of the work of Dr. John B. Buck. [Yearbook, Amer. Phil. Soc.] 1952: 165-67. Monros, F. Notas sobre Criocerinae (Chrysomelidae). [8] 11: 467-82, ill., 1951 (*). Revision de las especies argentinas de Chlamisinae (Chrysomelidae). [8] 10: 489-672. ill., 1952 (*k). Seis nuevas especies de Criocerine del noroeste Argentine (Chrysomelidae). [8] 10: 33-49, ill., 1952. and M. J. Viana. Las Cassidinae de la seccion "Hemisphaero- tina" con revision de las especies argentinas. [8] 11: 367- 95, ill., 1951 (*k). Papp, C. S. Netibeschreibungen iiber einige chrysomeliden aus Stidamerika. [8] 10: 291-98, ill., 1952 (k). Park, O. A new genus of pselaphid beetles from the Everglades. [97] 121, 4 pp., ill. Schedl, K. E. Fauna Argentinensis V. Contribution to the morphology and taxonomy of the Scolytoidea. [8] 12: 443-63, 1951 (*). Scolytoidea nouveaux dti Congo Beige. [Annal. Musee Roy. Congo Beige, Serie in 8, Sci. Zool.] 13, 62 pp., ill., 1952. Selander, R. B. A new species of Calospasta from Utah (Meloidae). [Ill] 29: 47-48. Summers and Stafford. (See Diptera.) Theodorides, J. Les coleopteres fos- siles. [137] 121: 23-48, ill., 1952. Tilden, J. W. Obser- vations on the biology of Psoa maculata Leconte (Psoidae). [47] 7: 9-12. Uhmann, Erich. "Hispinae" von Brasilien und Argentinien (Chrysomelidae). [8] 12: 331-41, ill., 1951 (*). Van den Bosch, R. (See Hymenoptera.) Vau- rie, P. The Gregorio Bondar types of South American weevils (Curculionidae). [13] 1615,39pp. HYMENOPTERA Ayyappa, P. K. and P. S. Cheema. An ectoparasite (Bethylidae) on the larvae of Anthrenus vorax Waterhouse. [Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. Sect. B] 36: 215-22, ill., 1952. Bohart, G. E. and G. F. Knowlton.- Notes on mating, prey provisioning and nesting of Sphex procerus (Dahlbom), Sphecidae. [56] 55: 100-01. Cole, A. C., Jr. To collect and make taxonomic and ecologic Ixivj ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 189 studies of the ants of New Mexico. (Report on Grant.) [Yearbook, Amer. Phil. Soc.j 1952: 153. Creighton, W. S. New data on the habits of the ants of the genus Veromes- sor (Formicidae). [13J 1612, 18 pp. Pseudomyrmex apache, a new species from the southwestern United States (Formicidae). [115] 59: 131-42, ill., 1952. Studies on Arizona ants (4) Camponotus (Colobopsis) papago, a new species from southern Arizona. [115] 59: 148-62, ill., 1952. Fullaway, D. T. Three new species of Eurytoma. [69] 15 : 33-36. Gaul, A. T. Additions to vespine biology. XI, Defense flight. [36] 48 : 35-37. Hagen, K. S. A premating period in certain species of the genus Opius (Braconidae). [69] 15: 115-16. Hutchins, R.' E. The amazing fungus ants. [Nature Magazine] 46: 245-46, ill. Jackson, W. B. Microclimatic factors in army ant behavior and ecology. [Amer. Phil. Soc. Yearbook] 1952: 157-61. Krombein/K. V. A note on the nesting habits of Megachile texana Cres- son. [56] 55: 84-85. Kusnezov, N. Acerca de las hor- migas simbioticas del genero Martia Forel (Formicidae). [S] 10: 717-22, 1952 (*). Die ameisenfauna Argentiniens (Formicidae). [159] 150: 15-25. Un caso de ergatandro- morfismo en Lasiophanes nigriventris Spin. (Formicidae). [8] 10: 153-62, ill., 1952. "Descolemyrma ogloblini" genero y especie nuevos de la tribu "Attini" (Formicidae). [8] 1 1 : 459-65, ill., 1951. El estado real del grupo Dorymyrmex Mayr (Formicidae). [8] 10: 427-47. ill, 1952. El genero "Camponotus" en la Argentina (Formicidae). [8] 12: 183- 252, ill., 1951. El genero Oligomyrmex Mayr en la Argen- tina (Formicidae). [8] 10: 183-87, ill., 1952. El genero "Pheidole" en la Argentina (Formicidae). |8] 12: 5-88, 1951 (k). El genero "Poponomyrmex" Mayr (Formicidae). [8] 11 : 227-333, ill, 1951 (*k). El genero Wasmannia en la Argentina (Formicidae). [8] 10: 173-82, ill.. 1952 (*). "Lasiophanes" Emery en la Patagonia (Formicidae). [8] 12: 89-100, 1951. "Myrmelachista" en la Patagonia (For- micidae). |8] 11: 353-65, ill., 1951 (*). and R. Golbach. -Lista de las especies argentinas de la tribus Dacetini, Formicidae. |S| 10: 423-26, 1952. Laidlaw, Harry H.- An anesthetization chamber for the artificial insemination of queen bees. [76] 46: 167-68, ill. Lees, A. D. (See Anatomy.) Maa, T. An inquiry into the systematics of the tribus Apidini or honeybees. [Treubia] 21 : 525-40, ill. Pielou and Glasser. (See Anatomy.) Riegel, G. T. Neo- tropical exodont Braconidae. [71]' 45: 177-81. Risbec, J. Contribution a 1'etude des chalcidoides de Madagascar. s 190 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [J u ty' 1953 [72] 2: 1-449, ill., 1952. Smith, M. R. A revision of the genus Rpmblonella W. M. Wheeler (Formicidae). [69J 15 : 75-80, ill. Van den Bosch, R. Bathyplectes curculionis (Ichneumonidae) as a parasite of Hypera brunneipennis (Curculionidae). [76] 46: 161-62. and F. H. Haramoto. Competition among parasites of the oriental fruit fly. [69] 15: 201-06. Van Pelt, A. Notes on the above-ground activity and a mating flight of Pogonomyrmex badius (Latr.). [147] 28: 164-68. Wheeler, G. C. and J. Wheeler. -The ant larvae of the myrmicine tribe Pheidolini. [56] 55 : 49-84, ill. Willink, A. Las especies argentinas y chi- lenas de "Chlorionini" (Sphecidae). [8] 11: 53-225, ill., 1951 (*k). Sphecidos neotropicales. I. [8] 10: 167-71, 1952. Los vespidos sociales argentinos, con exclusion del genero Mischocyttarus (Vespidae). [8] 10: 105-51, ill., 1952 (k). Zikan, J. F. Polymorphisms und Ethologie der sozialen Faltenwespen (Vespidae Diploptera). [8] 11: 5-51, ill., 1951. Reviews APHIDS OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION. By Miriam A. Palmer. Vol. V. Thomas Say Foundation. For sale by Pro- fessor J. J. Davis, Department of Entomology, Purdue Univer- sity, Lafayette, Indiana. Price: $10.25 post paid in U. S. A.. $10.50 elsewhere. Entomologists will be pleased to learn of the publication of volume five, by the Thomas Say Foundation. This volume of four hundred fifty-two pages is by Miriam A. Palmer, who was for many years associated with C. P. Gillette, and is titled "Aphids of the Rocky Mountain Region." This work, the largest thus far published on aphids in America, brings together descriptions, illustrations, and biological notes on about 460 aphid species known to occur in Colorado, Utah, southern Wy- oming, southeastern Idaho, and northern New Mexico. Many of the species are keyed for the first time, and many have never been figured before. The work is especially noteworthy because it brings together the many species described from Utah by G. F. Knowlton. Several new species are described and one or two new names are proposed. The plan of classification fol- lowed is largely that of A. C. Baker, and is conservative as to genera and species. Following a brief introduction, the family is characterized and divided into subfamilies. The subfamilies Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 191 are characterized, keyed to tribes and subtribes, these are in turn characterized and keyed. Genera are characterized, and keyed to species. Individual species are treated after a rather fixed pattern : all known forms are described and essential char- acteristics illustrated by excellent line drawings which are grouped to make four hundred fifty-four figures, distribution is indicated within the area, and essentials of life history re- corded. The section on taxonomy of species is followed by eight colored plates. Following the colored plates there comes a section which should appeal to many entomologists ; it is a key to species infesting economic plants grouped under their re- spective hosts. These keys are brief because they involve few species and for the most part employ common, well known, easily recognized characters. Here one finds keys to such spe- cies that live on apple, aster, birch, blue spruce, currants, plum, rose and many other garden and field crops. There is a host plant index, list of literature, gazetteer, and an index to scien- tific names. Probably in deference to American economic entomologists a few well known, well established names for species are retained which are known to be synonyms. In one or two cases perhaps this is well because taxonomists in Europe do not agree as to which specific name should be used. It might, however, have been well to indicate such cases. In a work as extensive as this, it is natural that taxonomists would find points here and there to quibble over, or on which they hold honest differences of opinion concerning generic concepts, the interpretation of rules of nomenclature, and the use of specific names. These differences of opinion will vary from person to person, and need not con- cern the general user of this book. The work is not a revision. It is to be regretted that it does not cover the entire United States, or that it does not include the species described from the Pacific Coast unless they occur within the region. However, it is by no means as limited in its scope as its title indicates. It includes most economic species found in the United States. The addition of approximately a hundred species from the United States and Canada would make it practically complete. The book is excellently printed by the off-set process and well and strongly bound. For this reviewer, who more than thirty years ago received instruction and infectious enthusiasm for the study of aphids from Professor Palmer, it is a pleasure to recommend this book. F. C. HOTTES, Grand Junction, Colorado 192 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July, 1953 PLANT DISEASES IN ORCHARD, NURSERY AND GARDEN CROPS. By Ernst Gram and Anna Weber, edited and adapted by R. W. G. Dennis. 618 pp., 350 text figs., 10 colored plates. Philo- sophical Library Inc., New York, 1953. $18.50. This elegantly printed volume has had an interesting history and one pertinent to an "understanding of its scope. Work on it was begun by the authors in 1933, but the first edition was not published until 1940, in Copenhagen, at a time when Denmark was under blockade and when it was necessary that a country in such a situation be agriculturally self-supporting. The book was so helpful that a second Danish edition was issued in 1944. The present English language edition, based on this second edition, was translated by Evelyn Ramsden and edited and abridged by Dr. Dennis of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Intended primarily as a general work for the cultivator, and seemingly popular in parts of Europe, it contains considerable technical information and more than a scattering of scientific terms. Although written in quite lucid English, a professional worker does not feel he is reading a text that has been watered- down for the amateur. Reader interest is often added by a brief history of the development of our knowledge of a disease as well as its early methods of control. Textual references are freely made to authors and a reasonable bibliography is appended. As one would suppose by the title the contents deals with the diseases of orchard, nursery and garden crops, those of the grain crops being omitted. However, the general scope is wider than the title would seem to indicate. The first section deals with "The nature of plant disease" and includes such things as en- vironmental factors (even damage by lightning), an excellent treatment of mineral deficiencies, poisoning by chemical sub- stances such as coal gas, damage by sprays, as well as a general discussion of various of the aspects of fungus, bacterial and virus disease conditions. The next three sections, "Diseases of Tree and Bush Fruit," "Diseases of Vegetables and Herbaceous Fruit," and "Diseases of Ornamental Plants and Trees" form the bulk of the text. Here the plants are listed alphabetically under their English common names, with the diseases also listed alphabetically under each, again under their English common names. The name of the causal organism (or initiating condition) is given and the disease discussed, often at considerable length under the sub- headings of Symptoms, Cause and Control. Secondary inva- sions also are considered. Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 193 For use in America general effectiveness of the present work will be lessened by several factors. As one would expect, it stresses diseases and conditions prevalent in Denmark. This has been further modified by the last editing which pointed the text toward conditions in England. This does not mean that dis- eases not present in northwestern Europe but serious elsewhere are not included ; however, the lack of emphasis of these is certain to be noted. Yet it is to be admitted that only a few serious plant diseases of temperate regions are today confined to any one area ; therefore in general the present text has wide application in America. Perhaps the greatest factor hindering the effectiveness of the book is the presence of varietal names mostly unknown to us, especially in the otherwise excellent tables of susceptibility to diseases and spray injury. In some instances the names of widespread varieties have suffered a "sea change" upon introduction into this country; in the majority of cases, especially among the fruits, we just do not grow the sorts com- monly planted in England and Denmark. This same situation holds for the names of the proprietary therapeutic products on occasion noted as being effective in the control of some particu- lar disease ; although we may be using the same basic com- pounds, we do not know them under the same trade names. The four pages on British quarantine regulations and advisory services in the present edition are, of course, only of academic interest to the American reader. Furthermore, the recent ex- pansion of plant disease control measures in America is only touched upon in the text, probably the result of the necessary time lag in production of the present edition. In fact today no book published on this side of the Atlantic can be said to be really up-to-date, so rapid is our production of new therapeutic compounds. On the whole, however, the entomologist desiring to have at hand a readable treatise on the diseases of a wide range of useful plants will find this work of considerable help. One of the major points of interest will be the "keys" to symptoms under each of the major crop plants. For example, the one on pota- toes covers nearly five pages. With an ailing plant at hand one without technical training usually can rather easily run down through the key and determine the cause by the appearance of the specimen, this applying to single element deficiencies (or excesses) and cultural troubles, as well as pathological condi- tions caused by disease-producing organisms. Fortunately the authors have "keyed-out" the same condition in several places according to its variant symptoms as exhibited under different 194 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS u' 1953 cultural situations, at different times in the plant's development, as well as in different parts of the plant. These keys also list the page where the condition is discussed at length, either under a particular plant or under some general topic. The illustrations, although not always of the best quality, serve to amplify the discussion and description of symptoms and causal organisms. Altogether, this is a useful and helpful work which should be on the shelves of those economic entomologists who, from time to time, need to ascertain the cause of some pathological condi- tion not directly attributable to insect damage. WENDELL H. CAMP Department of Experimental Botany and Horticulture The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia INSECT PHYSIOLOGY. Edited by Kenneth D. Roeder. (By R. L. Beard, D. Bodenstein, J. B. Buck, L. E. Chadwick, M. F. Day, V. G. Dethier, G. A. Edwards, D. Gilmour, S. C. Munson, R. L. Patton, A. G. Richards, K. D. Roeder, T. C. Schneirla, W. Trager, and D. F. Waterhotise.) xiv + 1100 pp., 257 figs. John Wiley and Sons, New York, Feb., 1953. Price, $15.00. This is the first American book on the physiology of insects. True, Snodgrass, in his "Principles of Insect Morphology" (1935), included a good deal of information on the functioning of the various organs that was up-to-date for its time, but the emphasis was morphological. For many years entomologists were concerned mainly with taxonomic, distributional, morpho- logical, life-history, and ecological studies, and with economic entomology. Thus, in spite of the many entomologists in Uni- versities and other institutions, physiology was neglected, and it is only in fairly recent years that we have been hearing more and more of "insect physiologists." It was the appearance of Wigglesworth's "Principles of Insect Physiology" in 1939 that brought to general notice the fact that a science of insect physiology had surely if quietly been coming into existence, and ever since then that book has accelerated the growth of the science by attracting and guiding new workers in the field. This new book, edited by Roeder, will lie valuable in the same way. Compared with Wigglesworth's (1950 edi- tion), the present volume, with 1100 pages, is slightly more than half again as large ; Wigglesworth has only 544 pages but has Ixiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 195 60