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August-December 1889.J p!$å´YC'fiE
CALOTERMES FLAVICOLLIS.
I. Youngest larvae.
2. Larvae unfit for reproduction. 3. Larvae fit for reproduction. Supplementary royal pairs. 3.
7--7 ---- 7
5. Soldiers. 6. Nymphs. 7. Supplementary royal pairs. 4. ----- -
7
8. Winged forms. 9. Supplementary royal pairs. 5. --A- 7
10. True royal pairs.
, Found only when No. 14,15 and :I fail. or the last two present in insufficient numbers. 2. ' ' ' ' 14, 15 and 4 " " " " " represented in insufficient numbers. 3. *' " " " 10, 7 and 9 fail.
4. " " '1 'I :o, 9 and 4 fail.
5. ** " " *' 10, 7 and 4 fail.
NOTES ON
BY S. W. WILLISTON,
In the preparation, some time ago, of
a catalogue of the South American
asilidae, and a partial study of a Bra-
zilian collection, I made a number of
notes, some of which seem of sufficient
interest to publish. The catalogue in-
cludes no less than five hundred and
forty names, not counting known syno-
nyms, located under seventy-seven
genera. The determination of species
from among some of these is a dreary
task, and in such genera as Erax, with
its seventy-six "species," or Mallo$ho-
ra, with fifty-six, almost impossible,
save by the aid of large collections.
Undoubtedly there are many synonyms
among the names, yet, enough must
remain to demonstrate the richness of
the South American fauna in this fam-
ily.
In a comparison of the generic names
I have found several preoccupied, for
which I would propose the following :
ASILIDAE.
NEW HAVEN, CONN.
For Laparus Loew, non Billberg, NEO-
LAPARUS ; for QZind?,ophora Philippi,
LYNCHIA, in honor of Enrique Lynch
A.; for Phoneus Macquart, NEOPHO-
NEIJS ; and, by the strict rights of
priority, in which I fully believe, Neo- moctherus 0. S. must give place to
HELIGMONEURA Bigot, and Andreno-
soma Rondani to NUSA Walker.
It is very singular that Schiner, with
his entomological acuteness should have
so misunderstood the genus Senohasis
Macquart, as he seems to have done.
Macquart's characters were as follows :
"CharactAres gknbriques des Dasy-
pogons. Troisihme article des antennes
fl base ti"& menues et extrbmitb fort
renfl&e et ovale. Abdomen a base rk-
tr6cie ; armature copulatrice f & pieces lat6rales en forme de crochets allonges. Cuisses nues. Ailes : quartrikme cellule post6rieure ferm6e, & nervure terminale
arsondie." In his figures of S. analis




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he adds a short style to the antennae, of which he says nothing in the descrip-
tion, and which does not in reality
exist. Now this peculiar structure of
the antennae was what Schiner einpha-
sized as the characteristic of Locfiites. The narrowing of the base of the abdo-
-
men in Macquart's analis is slight, and
but little more than occurs in some of
Schiner's species. Not only are the
genera the same, but I am not sure but
that some of Macquart's and Schiner's
species may be. Several species that
I
have examined convince me that the
narrowing of the abdomen at the base
is a very trivial character. Schiner re- ferred to Senobasis the species of
Ble$har'ejium, with an elliptical third
antenna1 joint, forms totally different. Bigot seems equally to have misunder-
stood the genus, which perhaps is not
strange. Lochites must therefore be
dropped, which is all the more neces-
sary from the fact that the name was
twice used before Schiner's. I leave
to the purist the emendation of the name Sembasis.
The species from No1 th America re-
ferred by me to ApJzamartania Schiner,
does not belong there, as true specimens of the genus prove ; where it does be-
long I do not know.
In the collection are specimens of a
Deromyia closely resembling D. mis-
e/lus from North America, with the
fourth posterior cell closed. Baron
Osten Sacken (Biol. Centr. Amer. 173)
refuses to accept the identity of Diog-
mdes and Deromyia, or, accepting it,
would place the latter as a synonym o1-
subgenus of the former.
I cannot agree
with him. Philippi's description was
as good as Loew's and a year eailier. 1
can see no reason whatever for rejecting Philippi's name, and, until further evi- dence from Philippi's type species is at hand, the name Diogmites should be
dropped.
Schinei located the genus Psezå´tdorit
Walker under the dasy@g-oninae, and
attributed to it three submarginal cells, expressly stating that he had examined
two specimens. A specimen that I have
examined, and which I believe to be P,
,
ficeus Walker, has the marginal cell
closed and with but two submarginal
cells, agreeing in 130th respects with P. bicolor Bellarcli. The genus is closely
allied to nor-vchts Jaenn.
Mr. Roeder has recently (Berl. ent.
zeit. v. 21, 76) fully discussed the
synonymy of Dorydus and Megn$oda
Macq., distinguishing them as geneni,
and clearing up the confusion of the
species. Specimens of the two type
species, Doryclus distendens ( Wied. )
Jaenn. and Megapoda labiato (Fabr.)
Macq., convince me that he is quite
right in separating the forms. Not
only the characters of the legs, but the general habitus also, and the form of the face, are fully sufficient, in my opinion, to distinguish them. Pseudorus exists
with less right than does Do?~yclus it
seems to me. There is considerable va-
riation in the three specimens I have
examined, both male and female, of
D. distendem, so that I am not pre-
pared to say that the specific synonymy
is correctly given by Roeder, but it




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PSYCHE.
seems extremely probable.
Both Lynch and Osten Sacken have
commented upon the difficulty of iden-
tifying the described species of Atorno- sia, and 1 can agree with them. There
seem to be numerous structural charac-
ters that have been but little used, either for generic or specific discrimination.
As a contribution to the better definition of the Atomosia group of genera, I offer the following :
A.-Third joint of the antennae
longer than the first two togeth-
er. without style ; eyes on the
side of the front emarginate, the
front not widened above ; scu-
tellurn with bristles ; first pos-
terior : cell usually narrowed ;
body punctulate.
Atomosia Macq.
t b Third antennal joint longer than
the first two together, without
distinct style [front ?] ; scutel-
lum without bristles. Hind
femora with spinous bristles ;-
hind tibiae feebly ciliate within.
Body punctulate."
Rhathimomyia Lynch.
" Third antennal joint longer than
the first two together, without
distinct style [Front broad
above?]. Abdomen much con-
stricted at base, not strongly punc-
tulate ; wings and legs long."
Eumecosoma Schiner.
"Third antennal joint at least three
times as long as the first two
joints together, without style.
Large species." [Front ? punc-
tuhi tion ?]
Aphestia Schiner.
Third joint of antennae longer
than the first two together, with
a terminal style ; eyes not, or
but very slightly emarginate on
the sides of the front, the front
much wider above ; scutellum
without bristles, or with hair-like
ones. Atonia, gen. nov.
First joint of antennae about as
longas the third, the latter with-
out terminal style. Front much
widened above, the eyes disci-
form and with enlarged facets
in front; scutellum with weak
bristles ; body punctulate.
Cerotainia Schiner .
First joint of antennae as long as
the third, without style. Scutel-
him without bristles. Abdomen
punctulate, slender. Thorax re-
markably projecting forward in a
hemispherical, constricted emi-
nence. Cyphotonzyia, gen. nov.
Third joint of the antennae longer
than the first two' together, with-
out style ; front wide above ;
scutellum with fine bristles ; seven
abdominal segments visible in
the male from above ; abdomen
smooth, not punctulate.
Lamprozona Loew.
The genus Atonia is. I believe, well
founded, and will include a number of
species, such as A. ancyloccra Schiner,
A. mikii Williston, etc. Cyphotomyia
is perhaps more doubtful, but the entire absence of bristles on the scutellum,
and apparently also on the ocelligerous
tubercle, together with the remarkable
development of the thorax, will, I be-
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258 Pks'2'-CHl?!?.
[August-December 1889.
upon which it is based I do not find
anywhere described, and so give it
here.
Cyphotomyia lynchi6 sp. nov.
Antennae black, long (about as long
as the hind femora) ; first joint about as long as the third, with hairs above,
and a few bristles below; second joint
short, with bristles ; third joint slender, pointed, without style, black pubescent. Face and front densely yellowish gray
pubescent; face a little wider above,
very slightly projecting below, with a
few fine black bristles on the lower part. Front very deeply excavated, and very
broad above, the inner margins of the
eyes convex, the ocelligerous tubercle
small and (in the single specimen)
without bristles. Head nearly twice
as wide as high, flat, the eyes disci-
form, and with distinctly enlarged facets in front. Proboscis not long, truncate,
black. Thorax black, punctulate ; me-
sonotum remarkably projecting above in
front, forming a hemispherical protuber- ance, laterally constricted at its base. Abdomen black, slender, acuminate,
strongly punctulate, the segments with-
out lateral bristles. Femora black, tib- iae and tarsi yellow, except that the tips of the four anterior tibiae, the distal part of the hind pair, and the last two or
three joints of all the tarsi, are brown or blackish ; tibiae and tarsi with slender yellow bristles ; hind tibiae on the inner side with yellow pile as in most species of Cerotainia and Atomosia. Wings
lightly infuscate (from the microscopic
pubescence) ; petiole of marginal cell
long ; first and second posterior cells of nearly equal width distally, long ; veins at outer end of the discal and fourth pos- terior cells nearly in the same straight . line ; small cross-vein before the middle of discal cell. Length 5 mm.
One specimen, Chapada (near Cuy-
ab4) Brazil, H. H. Smith.
Schiner long ago (Verh. zoo1.-bot.
Gesellsch, I 6,664) called attention to
the artificial position of Atractia among the asilinae, sensu auctorum. I can
only reiterate it, and protest against
any classification that separates the
genus from the immediate neighbor-
hood of Atomosia, sensu strictiori.
Indeed, as Schiner says, when the third
antennal joint in any specimen is want-
ing, the species will be unhesitatingly
referred to that genus. To separate
Atractk, then, into another subfamily
on the slight difference between a slen- der style (as in Atonia mikii Will.)
and a short bristle, is absurd.
Ahact4
at present, includes but four species,
three from South America, and one
from Central America. Two addi-
tional species are represented in the
Smith collection. Another species, of
much larger size, and different appear-
ance, also new, but more nearly related
to some of the described species, has
the abdomen entirely smooth, without
punctulation, the proboscis longer,
etc. ; it may require the erection of
a new genus for its reception. As in
many of the species of the Atomosia
group of genera, all these species have
a minute projection on the upper bordei- of the third antennal joint.
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August -December 1889.1 p~2TEiVZ. 259
p. 183 Bull., Bigot, in his characteristic way, proposes a new generic name,
Pseudarchilestes, for Dasypog'on a ibi-
tag*sis Macquai-t . The author could
have hardly comprised more errors in
one short note than he has done. First,
Schiner first described the genus Archi- lestes ( Archilestris) in the Verh. 2001.- bot. gesellsch. 1866, v. 16, p. 672,. and not in Reise der osterreichischen fre-
gatte Novara, which appeared two years
later. Second, he says nothing about
D. ^nagnz'ficus Walker, being the same
as D. aZbitarsis, but, on the contrary,
places D. al6itarsis as a synonym of
D. cupno$terus Wied.(o$. cit., v. 16, p. 703 ; v. 17, p. 377); the typeof the genus. Had Bigot been at all familiar with
what Schiner has written, he would have
observed that Schiner says expressly
(Verh. 2001.-bot. gesellch. v. 17, p.
378) that the third antenna1 joint in
A. ca@zojterus is "auf dele Oberseite
behaart," the very identical character
that Bigot assumes as distinctive of his Pseudarchilestes ! Furthermore, Schi-
ner says nothing in his original generic description about the third joint not
being hairy above. That he does say
so in a later description was undoubtedly an oversight, that should not have
been accepted so heedlessly. In a
word, Bigot erects a new genus upon
the type species of another genus, based upon a character that was expressly
stated to be present in that type. Ar-
chilestris nzagnz'ficus Walk. has, like- wise, the "third joint of the antennae
distinctly beset with hairs on the upper side." (Osten Sacken, Biol. Cent.-
Amer., p. 169.)
1 wish to substitute Myiothera for
JLyncJzia, p. 2%, as I find the latter was used by Weyenbergh in 1881.
NOTES ON THE EARLY STAGES OF SOME HETEROCERA. BY CAROLINE G. SOULE AND IDA M. ELIOT.
PANOPODA RUFIMARGO, VAR. ROSEI-
COSTA, Guen.
This larva was .28 mm. long, bright
green, and found feeding on oak in
Nonquitt, Mass., on 10 September, 1889.
The head was large, bright green,
minutely speckled with black, and hav-
ing a horizontal yellow line across the
fiforehead."
The body was bright, rich green,
minutely speckled with black, and hav-
ing subdorsal lines of bright yellow
extending from the head to the end of
the anal props.
On the first segment were four small
yellow dots just behind the head, and
two larger ones behind the four.
On the first and second segments were
a faint yellow horizontal line, and three rough yellow tubercles.
There
was a dorsal line of yellow
dashes and the space on each side was




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