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Psyche 7:188, 1894.

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188 PSYCHE. [January 1895..
dried pupae found within. These may
be described as follows :-
Psyliid ficfa.- Length (abdomen shrunk-
en), 1.2 to 1.4 rnm. ; width, I to 1.2 mm. The wing pads in their naturally lialf-spread condition give an apparent width, equaling the somewhat shrunken length; they are
distinctly longer than width of thorax.
Pupa rather oval or rounded in outline,
widest in middle of abdomen; finely and
somewhat sparsely pubescent on body,
wing-pads and antennae; abdomen long
pubescent. Pale yellowish, eyes black ;
mesonotnm, pronoturn, and top of head
roseate ; anterior pair of wing-pads pale rosy yellowish, hind wing-pads paler. Abdomen pale greenish, with an anterior median rosy yellowish area, the terminal portion broadly brownish with it median row of small black spines ending in a spiny tubercle, 13 spin& altogether in the row, and one on each side of row on posterior edge of abdomen.
Spines are arranged thus : first (anteriorly) three in a triangle with apex posteriorly directed; then three more in a similar
triangle; then the bunch of six in three pairs with a larger central one, giving the appearance of a spinigerous tubercle.
These spines grow longer and stouter
towards posterior end of row. On segment anterior to that bearing the first three nbove mentioned, there seem to be an additional hardly visible three. But in the larger
specimen there is in place of these only one quite conspicuous one of good size.
Legs.
and under side of body pale greenish, sternal and anterior portions yellowish rosy, the legs more or less shaded with same color. Antennae greenish at base,
more rosy or
pale apically.
Described from two specimens, taken
from dried galls found Nov. 26.
The
galls picked May 14 disclosed nothing.
The very small, elongate, whitish
eggs of this psyllid were found on a
cluster of young leaves, May 14. The
eggs were quite thickly attached to the
under surface of the leaf, adhering by
one end, and slanted toward the tip of
the leaf. A fewer number also
occurred on the upper surface. But
a considerable number of the just-
hatched young were found on upper
surface, where they were beginning to
bury themselves in the substance of
the leaf to form their galls,
The Celtis is probably the vat-.
rcticulata.
Two small hymenopterous parasites
issued fiom the dried galls above
mentioned. They have been deter-
mined by Mr. Win. H. Ashmead as
CeriQhron sp., and Tetrasfiches sp.
PHTHIRIA SULPHUREA LOEW.
Described from the female.
About 3 mm.
joint more than twice as long as the other long; yellow, wings hyaline. Head dull two combined, about twice as long as chrome yellow, ocelli black, eyes dull broad, pointed, but with a ~tna.11 tooth purple; proboscis about twice as long as almofct at the end, so as to appear bifurcate head;
face with sparse fine whitish pube- or deeply emiirginate; without bristles. scence ; antennae chrome yellow ; third Thorax pale delicate greenish-yellow, with



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three pale longitudinal bands, evanescent posteriorly before reaching the scutellum. Halteres yellow, club large, somewhat
longer than its pedicel. Abdomen shovel
shaped, deep chrome yellow, thinly pube- scent ahove with whitish hairs, which give it a sericeous appearance in certain lights. Legs pale yellow, tibiae slightly dusky, tarsi blackish at their distal ends, othcr- wise brownish.
Wings clear, iridescent, veins dark brown, the first longitudinal paler.
Hab. On yellow flowers of Compositae,
grounds of Agricultural College, I.as Cruces, N. M., Sept. 1894 (Miss J. Casad).
A [T was laken at San Augustine, N. M.,
on flowers, Aug, 29, 1894 (Ckll., 2260). It resembles the 9, but the abdomen is nar- rower and the eyes are contiguous.
This species is interesling from its coloin-, which is exactly that of the flowers it fre- quents. It occurs on the same flowers as the similarly colored bee, PediLa l~deola Ckll. ined. Prof. C. 13. T. Townsend tells me th?l-- he remembers finding a similar species in Michigan, but it was not
determined.
[This paper was received as the description of a new Uipteron and its true character learned only in time to change the title. ED.] LIFE HISTORY OF CLISIOCAMPA FRAGILE STRETCH. BY HARRJSON G. DYAR. A.M., NEW YORK.
C. FRAGILE Stretch.
I know of the larva from Nevada (Prof,
1881 -Stretch, Papilio, i, 64, J. J. Rivers), Montana (Mr. C. A. Wileyj, it,curva lly. Edwards. Colorado (Mr. 11. W. Nash) and Wyoming. 1882-Hy. Edw., Papilio, ii, 125.
I feel satisfied from a comparison of bred discolorata hTeumoc~cn. and captured succimens from these and 1893-Neum., can. ent., xxv,4.
war. PERLUTEA Neumoegen and Dyar.
1893-N. and D., Journ. N. Y. ent. sac.,
1, 31-
var. CONSTRJCTINA Neumoegen and Dyar.
1893-N. and U., Joiirn. N. Y. ent. soc., i, 30.
lute-.scens Neumoegen and Dyar.
1893-N. and D., Journ. N. Y. ent. soc.
1, 31-
war. MCS Neumocgen.
1893-Neuin., Can. ent., xxv, 4.
ear. AZTECA Neninoegen.
1893 - Neu~n., Can. ent., xxv, 5.
Synopsis of Varieties.
Fore wings all pale luteous . $erlut.@a. Fore wings partly brown . constrictina.
Fore wings brown, the lines only pale or slightly spreading . . . fragilis.
Fore wings dark gray brown . . mus.
Fore wings darker, blackish . . azteca.
other localities that there is only this one species from the Rocky Mountains to the
Sierras and from Canada (Mr. F. 14. Wolley Dod) to Mexico. C. frayilis is the western representative of americana. and is in turn represented in the Pacific Northwest by
$luvialis, C. disstria extends throughout the ranges of americana and -fil'uuidis and also extends into California (erosa and
thoracica are synonyms); but does not
enter the range offragilis to my knowledge.* The other species (califkziciz, cousfricta and ambisimilis) appear to be confined to California, and are yet imperfectly worked out. The following life hititory is based on larvae bred from eggs kindly sent me
by Mr. 13. W. Nash of Pueblo, Col.
Eggs. Columnar, flat above, rounded
below; upper surface round or elliptical *Since the above was written, I have seen dist~za from Guadalajara, Mexico.




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