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Psyche 8:416, 1897.

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416 PSYCHE. [Ocluber 1899.
double ventral line. The lower two of the side lines are somewhat broken by large
white spots on the anterior portion ofjoints 6 and 7. Lines lost on the t-horax. Other examples are more heavily shaded with dark brown so that the lines are broken, especially centrally on the segments.
Stage IV.
Head flat before, sides and ver-
tex continuous and of even width, a slight shallow notch. Face with an irregular pale mark cohposed of a white clypeus and four confluent dots, surrounded by a dark brown border, dotted with white; sides and vertex white, mottled with brown, especially in the center of the side posteriorly and iu vertical notch ; width about I. n1111. Body cylin- drical with slight subventral ridge, thorax somewhat smaller; anal plate large, trian- gular, not cornified; tubercle iii in a slightly elevated black spot. Brown, finely streaked longitudinally with white, intermixed with a few black dots. An obscurely double,
blackish dorsal line, each side of which on joints 6, '7 and 8 are two white dots, the anterior one nearest thc line. Thorax sub- ventrally and a dot before the spiracle on joint 5, an oblique subventriil clash on joints 5 to 10 and joints 11 to 13 subventrally black. All rather obscurely marked, brown, 1-esem- bling bark. During the stage the color pales to an almost whitish brown making the white linings obscure and the hlxk dots prominent. Siafe V. Head as before, the sides and
vertex pale, faintly marbled with pale lu- teous; width about 2 nun. Uody straight, cylindrical, rather short and robust, ~nxiller than the head; a slight dorsal elevation on joint 12 composed of the prominent tuber- cles i ; anal plate and leg shields large. Pale wood brown, speckled with black; i. e. the tubercles and some irregular dots, besides a narrow double dorsal tine, black. The line is pulverulent and fainter in the incisures. A similar, browner ventral line. Feet pale; a dark subventral shade on thorax. Setae obscure; dorsal tuberclesft little prominent. Staffs VI. Head square, face flat, rounded, slightly narrowed above; broadly, shallowly bilobed, equal in thickness above and below ; clypeus high, the paraclypeal pieces reaching the vertical notch; width 2.8 mm. Color
pale wood brown, face strongly mottled with dark brown around the margin; clypens and an area on either side pale; sides faintly marbled with pale brown, most distinctly on vertex. Body cylindrical, rather robust, neck slightly narrowed; smooth,
tubercles i on
joint 12 produced; subventral fold slightly prominent, waved ; anal shields large,
rounded. Thorsicic feet rather small, equal. Pale wood brown, faintly mottled with red- brown ; a narrow, geminate, pulverulent, black dorsal line, slightly broadening into a shade on joints 12 and 13. Medio-ventral line pale and reddish; a broad, double, dif- fuse, shaded subventral black band.
Tuber-
cles and several dots-in lateral region black, spiracles black ringed ; feet slightly lined with black at base. Variation not marked. The Iateial dots may be faint or distinct, rarely connected into a broad lateial shade, bordered above by a waved subdorsal line and reaching over lateral region to below sub- ventral fold. The usual form is pale brown with single dorsal and paired subventral blackish bands; tubercles i of joint 12 conic- ally produced.
Cocoas a coarse net of brown silk between leaves. The laivae refused oak, but fed
readily on persimifton and apple. Found at Brookhaven, Long Island, N. Y., eggs June loth, iniituie larvae August 10th.
A NEW MELOID BEETLE PARASITIC
ON ANTllOPHORA.
Leonianeomexicana. n. sp. -Length about
11 tnillim. Black, including legs and anten- nae; elytra fulvous. Form of L. yileyi,
with a rather sparse black pubescence;
mandibles stout, curved, entire, blunt at tip ; antennae stout, 10-joinled, first joint cam- panulate, shorter and more abruptly swollen Pswk 8416-417 tpre-1903). hlp:/lpsyclienilclub or@/S-416 html



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distally than in vile@; second and third joints equilateral like the following ones, not oblique with one side produced as in rileyi\ second joint sensibly shorter than the third; third slightly longer than the fourth; fourth to ninth about cqiiiil in length, hut the distal joints narrower than the proximal ; terminal joint similar to the penultimate one, whereas in deyi the last two joints are dissimilar. Prothorax as in rileyi, shining, sparsely punctured; elytra about as in rileyi-, covering at the sides about two-thirds of the first abdominal segment. Hind marcpns of:ibdom- ilia1 segments narrowly testaceous; s~ir'fiice of segments shining, with broad shallow
punctures. At the sides the ventral segments encroach upon the dorsal area, the dorso- ventral sutures being marked by deep sub- lateriil channels. Legs as in vile& claws simple, with a strong basal bristle.
fib. -Mesitla, New Mexico, about the
first of August, 1896, on a wall in which were many nests of AnfkopJwa vdlorum (Ckll.). This was sent at the time of its discovery to .Dr. Horn, and it is much to be regretted that he did not live to publish an account of it. When recently in Philadelphia, I found it. in Dr. Horn's collection, and was able to draw up the above description. Li, neomesc- icana is very distinct from Hoim'u minittipen- fus, and quite sufficiently so from Leo& rUeyi, as the following table of the North American Sitarini shows : -
Antennae 11 -jointed; head, thorax and
legs bright ferruginous.
Hernia minuttpmis Riley
Antennae to-jointed.
Black ; elytra fulvous; second and third antenndl joints equilateral.
Leonia neomes'sicana Ckll.
Dark ferruginous; elytra testaceous;
second and third antenna1 joints conspic- uously inequilateral '
Leonia riieyi E. Dugks. (Mexico.)
All three are parasitic in nests of Antho- phom. T. 0, A. Cockemll.
N. M. dgr. Exf. Sfa,
A NEW PULVINARIA FROM MASSA-
CHUSETTS.
Puhullarta cockerelli, n. sfi $ Scale
jellowish brown, small, nearly hemispherical in outline, slightly convex, 4 mm. long, 34 tmn. broad. Ovisac 7 rr1ni. long, 3 mu]. broad and a little more than r mm. in thickness. Texture soft, clear white, powdery and
sticky. Eggs small oval, white, situated in an oval cluster on the under side of the leaf beneath the ovisac. Newly hatched larvae clear white. 9 Scale cleared and mounted transparent slightly tinged with yellow, Legs, luitennae, mouthparts and anal plates light yellow. Antennae 8 segmented, 3 quite long, 4 next, 7 is the shortest (see table of measurements all in rnicrornillimeters). The hairs on the antennae are as represented in the drawing, usually 18. The length and
breadth of the antennae seem to be quite con- stant in all of the material examined. Legs normal. Coxa broader than long, the legs usually have about 22 hairs on each (see fig- ure of leg). Marginal spines stout, bulbous Antenna. Leg.
it base, tips sharp, 6 micro~nillimeters long, they are very easily lost in mounting.




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