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Tuly 1895.1 PSYCHE. 263
old specimens, white internally, the basal portion somewhat darker. Gall formed of
sections, each section a1 base containing a cell in which lives a larva or pupa, sections formed of more or less straight woolly-like brittle fibers all extending upward (down- ward on leaf) from and around the cell
which forms basal portion of each section; the fibers are provided with fine spine-like spicules, the more terminal ones arranged in whorls. The fibers are white except on tips, which arc pink or pale brownish yellow.
These terminal ends of the fibers with their spicules are what form the external visible sin-race of the gall, and give it its woolly appearance. The basal portion of each
section containing the cell is hard, pale greenish in color, and 5 or 6 mm. long by about 2 mm. wide external measurement.
The cell contained within is iibout 4 mm. long by I mm. wide.
Described from several specimens.
On leaves of Quercus ti-ndulata vtir.
wrightii. Organ Mts., southern N. M.
Specimens of the gall-maker, sent
to Mr. Win. H. Ashmead, were deter-
mined as Gillirhytissp. Two parasites
of the latter that had been bred were
determined as Syntomaspis sp. and
Tory mus sp.
The Callirhytis is an ample-winged
-
light rufbus species.
Head and dorsum
of abdomen darker rufous. Wings
clear. Length 2 mm. ; of wins; 3 mm.
The Syntomaspis is a small, elegantly
formed, bright metallic green species,
with ovipositor nearly as long as abdo-
men and thorax together, and hyaline
wings. Tarsi yellowish. Length about
1% mm. ; of ovipositor, 1-5- mm.
The Torymus is a very small, elon-
gate, dark green species, with tarsi
whitish. Wings clear. Length, 1-1 mm.
LOCAL BUTTERFLY NOTES.
On June 2, 1895, while butterfly hunting in Wellesley, I saw and neatly captured a fine specimen of Pa$ilio cresfhonies. This is the first I remember to have seen flying in Wellesley although Mr. Thomas Smith at
the Hunnewell gardens hiis one taken by
him a few years ago on those grounds.
On June 7 Lieut. W. Robinson captured
in the street opposite his house in Cam- bridge a perfect specimen of Ba.s~Ziirchia c;~/hemis which had evidently just emerged. It was busily engaged sucking up the mois- ture from a muddy spot in the street and was taken without difficulty, making no attempt to fly. l can find no record of tin's butterfly's occurrence in Cambridge, hence communi-
cate the fact.
The aberrations fascz'atrz and obliterafa of the butterfly Heodes hy$oplilueas have been piirticularly numerous about Cambridge this r
season, Lieut. Robinson having taken a
great many and well marked individuals of the former and several good examples of the latter. In one specimen of ofiliterafa not a spot or trace of a spot on the upper or under surface of the fore-wings was visible, except the two included within the cell, which ap- pear to be .always present. He also took a remarkable example of the aberration/affio/a in which the upper surface of the fore-wings are a light brassy yellow except near the base on the costal margin where the usii.il coppery red is visible in a slight degree. This specimen is in excellent condition. I may add, however, that the taking of the above aberrations is the result of intelligent collecting since. Mr. Robinson looked over hundreds in the fields only selecting tho~e that appeared interesting or peculiar.
Shelley W. Deaton.
Wellesley, Mass.




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SUPPLEMENT TO PSYCHE,-I.
CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NEW MEXICO AGRICULTGRAL EXPERIMENT STATION.
Tachardia fulgens, 11. sp.-
scales usu-
ally massed Logelher, more or lebs surround- ing the; twig', forming an irregular nodulose bright reddish-orange coating about 4 mm. thick.
A single scale is about j inni. long
and 4 broad, and presents a conspicuous
somewhat curved, blunt, shining. dorsal
hump ; also a hill-like projection, sometimes directed upwards, and two or three irregular projeclions on each side.
The '* hump" and
' tail " are sometimes so placed, that vhen the scale is viewed from the side it presents a ludicrous rcscniblance to the head of a man with a very long, crooked nose and a short; pointed beard, -or when the "tail " is
pointed upwards, it looks like a much-pro- duccd chin, and the scale then strongly
suggests the features of the hibtol-ical Mr. Punch !
On boiling in caustic alkali, the injects give a fine deep crimson color.
9 approximately giobular, purple (beconi- ng reddish-brown after being placed in abso- lute alcolioi iind mounted in balsan~), with the lac-t~ibes very conspic~iously contrasting -these latter quite colorless, with the ter- minal gland-mass yellow. Rostral loop
extremely short. Spine stout. Groups of
glands in vicinity of å´'tail (w1,ich has nothi~igtu clu wit11 the external ' å tail " above) round in outline, witli about 12 ori- fices. -'Tail " ver? broad, its outline about that of the dome of St. Paul's, 01- narrower in sonic examples; projecting from it the 10 or 12 brislles of the anogenhal ring. (In one I counted 12, in anotl-iei onl? 10.) Lac- tubes cylindrical, with stout btalki-: gland- groups at end rounded beneath; forming,
seen from the side, a bi-oiid crescent, not quite a hemisphere.
, .
1 he yo~i~ig Ian ac sire elongate, dark
crimson in color.
This species is in many respects allied to T. Znrreae and 2'. coi'?/u/ei, but can ea.il? be dislinguislicd from both by external appear- ance alone.
Hub. Arizona, received from Prof. J W.
Tounie~, who gives me the folios-ingini.ei-- esting particulars. He got it from a Alex- ican, and has seen only the stem of the
food-plant, but thinks it is a Se.?Am/i'a. He was told that this lac was used quite exten- sively by the Mexicans as a medicine for stoinach troubles, under the name of
" Gomea." It is kept in the drug shops at Tucbon, and meets quite a sale. It is :il$o used LO some extent in mending pottery? etc, Finally, he addfc, the Mexican< make a




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marked distinction between this iiud T.
larreae, the latter not being considered to have any medicinal qualities.
It is certainly the most beautiful and
striking lac I have ever seen.
Tachardia pustulata, n. sp. - scales
more or less massed together, sometiir~es single, deep crimson, about the color of black-currant jelly, moderately shiny, with small, pellucid pustule-like prominences. A single scale is 3& mm. long, 3 wide and 2h high, but there is variability in size, some being larger.
Very young scales, only about 14 mm.
long, are more pellucid, and about tile color of guava-jelly, with three irregular blunt rays on each side, and a dorsal tooth-like proini- nence resembling that of adult T. cornuta. $ subglobuiar, colorless when boiled in
alkali. Rostral loop very short. "Tail '' broad, anal ring with 10 hairs, which are short and straight. Spine thorn-like, broad at base, rapidly narrowing to its almo:-t needle-like terminal half; or sometimes
stouter. Lac-tubes conical, broadening at base, truncate 21s usual atends, terminal mass brownish, nearly a hemisphere seen from
the side, Groups of glands inconspicuous, irregular in outline, with about12 orifices. Young larva like that of T. julge?~s.
'
Embryonic or newly-hatched larva with
6-jointed antennae; joints I, 2, 4 and jshort, 3 and 6 long;
5 swollen, with a whorl of
hairs; 6 with I long- and several short hairs. Legs ordinary, claw very slender. Anal
ring with 6 stout bristles.
fib. T. fusliilafa van found by Prof.
Tourney near Phoenix, Arizona, early in the spring of 1894. It occurred on a small per- ennial composite which was .unknown to
Prof. Toumey, and being without flowers or fruit, conkl not be identified. It has linear leaves.
Ceroplastodes acaciae, 11. sp.- 9 scales clustered on twig, Scale strongly convex, snow-white, very like C, 'n'vens, but rather smaller, and more nodulose, the dorsum
being covered by irregitlar prominences. It
is, h o e e , less nodulose than C. daleae. Length of scale about 3 mm.
9 not staining liquid when boiled; derm
reddish-brown. Antennae $-jointed, 2
broader than long, 3 longer than broad,
and decidedly longer than 2 or 4. 4 longet- than broad, somewhat longer than 2. 5 sub- equal with 4. 6 shorter, 7 shorter still, 8 longer than 7. Rostral loop very short.
Legs ordinary, trochanter with a moderate bristle. Tarsus not so very much shorter than tibia, though distinctly so. Digitules ordinary not very long. Anal ring with
very numerous hairs; anal plates pale
brownish.
J scales elongate, white, nodulose, with a marginal fringe of small nodules.
Length
about 2 mm. or slightly more.
Young larvae naked, reddish-brown, gran- ular, distinctly segmented, not particiilarly elongated.
Hab. On Acacia comfricfa, June, 1893,
between the University of Arizona- and
Tucson, collected by Prof. J. W. Touine:. Prof. Tourney slates that he has seen :lie scale several times since on this species of Acacia, but never on other plants. The
food-plant of the Mexican C. niveus, to
judge from the twigs the type-specimens are on, is also an Acacia, but a different species. This is only the third species of the genus discovered.
Tourneyella, n. snbg. of Lecaniian.-
scale convex, embracing twig, moderately lard; dorsum shin?', with numerous broad, * white, wnxy rings on which ate sometimes small black spots. Adult f 17-ith the legs apparently absent: the antennae very short, rudimentary, 6-jointed. Embryonic larva
with a pair of extremely long bristles on each side, each representing the larger stigmatai spine. Type L mirtibile n. sp. This will doubtless be considered a distinct genus hereafter, but it is preferred to leave it as a subgenus of Lecanim until the whole Leca- niine group can be generically revised.




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July i89j.l S Upp.15 R"14BNT TO PS TCi%??. 3 Lecanium mirabile. 11. sp- 9 scale about 8 mm. long, 7 broad, and 5 high.
Nearly
circular in outline seen from above, hard, yet soft or clastic enough when alive to crush without breaking in pieces; very dark brown, with conspicuous irregular rings of ,snow-white waxy secretion, iibout I mm. diameter. In some specimens the rings are dotted with black. In it general way it may he said that the rings are arranged in six longit~~dind bands; their centres are mol-e or less depressed. The insect has quite a strong, musky odor. Removed from the
twig, the insect leaves a small amount of white powdci-.
2 apparently without legs, Antennae
very short, cylindrical, hardly at all tilpering, 6.l'oinled; 3 longest, 4 shorter thin1 2, 5 shorter than 4, 6 very short, button-like, emitting numerous istraight hairs. There is a false joint in the middle of 5, and an obscure one in 3.
Derm orange-brown, tnicroscopically tes- sellate, the tesserac not gland-spotted. Portions of the derm exhibit numerous
glands, appearing as round rings situated on oval discs.
The insects, when boiled in caustic alkali, give a very strong, dark, maddcr color. The young larvae in soda are pale crimson.
Young 1ai'v:i oval ; when alive it has the dorsum pale, purplish-grey, with a dark
hand down each side, and the margin very pale.
The embryonic or newly-hatched larva
is very peculiar. -The egg-membrane fits closely to the larva on one side. while on the other it is widely expanded, being apparently held in this position by a pair
of very large
and long straight bristles projecting from the side of the larva.
When the larva is free
one can see that these bristles dso exist on the side which was adjacent to the egg-men- brane; they are, infact, the largest stigmata1 bristles very greatly developed. The legs of these larvae have the digitules well
developed. The anal riny seeins to present numerous hairs, but in a free larva there were clearly seen to be but six. The rostra1 filaments are coiled like a watch-spring. The caudal filaments in a free larva are seen to be quite long, each arising from a tuft of small bristles.
Flab.
Thio extraordinary insect was sent
by Prof. Tourney, whose attention was first called to it by Prof. R. H. Forbes, Chemist of the Arizona Exper. Station. It occurs on mesquite (Prosopis jitlifloro- var. glandu- loso) near the University of Arizona, Tuscan, Lecanium quadrifasciatum, n. sp. - $
scales crowded in a thick cluster 7 or 8 cm. long, overlapping. Scale about 7 mm.
long, 5 broad, and 3h high. When alive
moderately soft, shiny, of a livid pinkish color, with four longitudinal bands of grey spots, the spots being slightly depressed. There is mottling of the same character
below the fourth band. The hands are about equally distant froin one another, and the dorsal bands may be closer together than to the lateral. Margin immaculate, and more pinkish than the rest of the scale. The
scales have quite a musky odor, as in
L mirabile.
Boiled in soda, the adult $ gives a strong madder color. Derm colorless, with sm:ill round gland-spots. Anal I-ing with six well- developed hairs. Anal plates together
Eorniing nearly a square. Antennae rudi- rnentary, cylindrical, obscurely 6-jointed, tip with several short straight hairs. Legs
rudimentary, looking something like small stout antennae, tibia and tarsus each nearly as broad as long,, femur about rh times as long as broad. All four digitulcs present though small. Mouth-parts well developed. Ha&
On twig of ~obin.i?t movte~ic~~~~,
Soledad Canon, Organ Mts., New Mexico;
found by J. E. Owen, a student in the pre- paratory department of the N. M. Agric.
College.
This is another exti-i~ordiniiry species, and should probably fall under Toumeyello, in which case the diagnosis of that group




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4 S UPPL A-XENT TO PSYCHE. [July 1895
would have to be altered a litlle.
Nothing
certain can be said, however, until the
embryonic larva of quadrifasciafum has
been seen. It is Lo be observed that L
robinianim Douglas, found at Las Cnices, N. M., on Robinia $seitdacada, has notl~ing whatever to do with quadrifmdat~im, being a Bnlecam'um. It has doubtless been intro- duced into New Mexico from the Eastern
States, though not hitherto recognized there by enloinologists.
Diaspis toumeyi, n. sp. - $ scales circular or nearly so, moderately coin'ex, about 2 rom. diameter, white tinged with yel'iowish or brown, exuviae sublateral; first skin exposed. pale straw; second skin, exposed by rubbing, orange. Removed from the twi~ the scale
Ienves a white mark.
8 scale as usual in genus, white, obscurely unicarinate, with the very pale yellowish exuviae at one end.
$ (boiled in soda) very pale brownish
(when dry, not boiled: dark brown). Rows of transversely oval pores, 21s usn:il in genus, Anal orifice small, s~~bcircular, not very fur from hind end. 5 groups of ventral glands, median round, caudolateral oval, cephalo- lateral Ions-oraL CaudoLiteral ~-ith 2,; orifices, caphaloteral 36: median 24,
Median
lobes extremely large, separated by a wide interval in which ib a pair of smiill spines, strongiy divergent, pale brown, rounded, finely crenate. Remaininglobes practicall? obsolete. Follo~ving first lobe on mai-gin is a low obscurely qnadrifid structure repre- senting the second lobe, then a pair of
short broad cone like plates, then a slight prominence, then a conical plate, then a spine, then a conical plate, then a short interval, then two sm'ill conical plates, then an almost obsolete plate, then a pyi'amktal small blunt brownish projection apparently representing a lobe: then two small plates, then a spine, then three large conical platen separated by rather wide intervals.
Hab, Prof. Tourney, sending specimen',
writes on April 29, 1895; 'å´ While at Mari- cop a few days ago. I drove to the mountains some 10 miies south, and on the way found an interestirigsshrub which grows here to the size of a tree; I refer to Holacamlha emoryi: which has not before been reportc~l north of Mexico. In m-in: places this plant was entirely covered " by Diasftis foinneyi. The species is alhe.1 to D. cacti in soine respects, but vey distinct.
Andrena salicinella, 11. sp. - 9 about 5 mm. long. black, with thin white pubescence, abdomen with hair-bands.
Head somewhat broader than long, vertex
sub-depressed; clypeus prominent, shining, strongly and rather closely punctate, its di&c almost bare. Vertex minutely roughened,
more or less aciculated. A very distinct but short broad band of iippressed snow-uhite pubescence before each anterior orbit. Fla- gellum slightly tinged with brown towards end. Thorax rather small; mesothorax with large, sparse, distinct punctures. Scutellum with similar punct~ircs. Metatliorax finel? roughened, enclosed area sculptured like the part. beyond, enclosure bounded by a very obscure rim, Pleura with long white hairs, not dense. Tegulae testaccous, moderately shining. Wings distinctly yellowibh, ner- vures and stigma honey-yellow. Legs with pale hair;; : femora and tibiae piceous-bl:ick,