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7 6 PS YCHK. [JU~Y, 1000.
SY S. J. HUNTER AND W. S. SUTTON, KANSAS UNIVERSITY, LAWRENCE. Mexico, but with no apparent reason,
though it is found there as stated above and indeed has been already credited to
Grant Co., by Townsend.
As T have said above, there is ij Cali-
fornian species, hitherto undesci ibecl, allied to Z. wheeleri 19 its lesser size, hind wings blue at base and hind tibiae
mostly blue, insiteail of, as lit the larger foi 111s and in L. inicrmedit;~ as well, having the disk of the wings yellow and
the hind tibiae yellow or red. It may
be called L g'lazicipe~?ni.~ and differs from L. å´whee/cr in that it is slightly smaller, the wings are of a paler blne
(of the tint found in blue specimens of
.Rerotmema sazm~wea~ftm Brun . ) ,
the hind process of the metazona is dis- tinctly acute and, except sometimes in
the female, iiot s~~brect:t~igul:~te,-though botli species are variable in this I espect THE MELANOFLI
like JL, elefhas; the lateral carinae of tlie pronotum are also more sharply
augttlate, especially in the female, the median carina a little more prominent,
and the granulations of the pionotal disk more pro~ninenl and sharper. It varies
little in size, and the following measure- ments are tziken from merage individ-
uals: Length of body, f , 19 mm.,
2,33 mm. ; antenncte, J', 8.5 inin., ? , 12 mm ; tegmiiia, f, 22 mm., 9, 34
mm. ; liirnj fcmoia, 8, 12.5 mm., 9,
21 mm. I have seen specimens from
he following California localities :
Point Loma. July 23, Los Angcles,
July 25, and Rubio Wash, Altadena,
July 39, all collected by A. P. Morse ;
and Santa Rosa Island, 11. Edwards ;
also fiom Durango, Mes.. E. Palmer,
and San Luis Potosi, Mex., G. Barro-
etit .
OF KANSAS. - 11.
LAKISUS SERIES.
M. lakhis Scudcler.- Antennae a
little more (male), or a little less
(female) than two thirds the length of
the hind femora. Frontal costa varia-
bly sulcate. Posterior expansion of the
pronotuiti variable, in two specimens
(males) subcqual, prozona elongate in
female and longer than metazona. In
these cl~aracteristics it varies somewhat from Scudder's description and favors
M. sonorm but is excluded from that
species by its blue hind tibiae. On the
hind femora there is a basal fuscous
spot on the uppci inner surface.
We have one female fiom Hamilton
county which agrees with the speci-
mens above described in general but
has a broader interspace between the
mesosternal lobes which forms the
chief distinguishing characte~istic of
M. murcitle~zi~;~. Being an i~lcoholic
specimen in this case the color mark-
ings distinguishing lakimis froin 9~709~- cztlenttis are not to be implicitly rclicd upon, therefoe, the exact position of
the insect rem:iins in doubt.
Two females from Ford county,
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July, n,oo.] PSYCHE. 7 7
three males and five females from
Hamilton county, Jnly. Reported pre-
viously from Lakin, Kearney county.
M marculentzts Brunei-. One male,
Russell Co., August. This specimen
manifests a trait liable to appear in
short-winged varieties. It agrees with
Scudder's description of Mi marcu-
lentws with the exception of tlie darker coloring of the upper ort ti on of tlie
head and pronotnm, and the greater
length of the subgenital plate, but in-
stead of Hie normal abbreviate wing the
insect has well developed tcgmina and
wings. The tegmina extend clearly
beyond the end of the abdomen and are
remarkably broad for one of this genus.
Width 6 mm., length 1 I mm. (est. ;
the tips were frayed). Basal half
testaceous, two or three testaceous spots on discoidal area. Wings hyaline,
veins and cross-veins fuscous in distal
portion, glaucous basally.*
This group as classified by Scudder
contains seven species of remarkable
siinilxity ; five of the seven, however, exist, in tlic United States, only west
of the Rocky Mountains. The otlici
two, atlanis and spretzis, are at times
easily distinguished, and again speci-
mens of each are found which in every
particular fail to fit any written descrip- tion we have met on the subject.
The
characteristics not shared by both seem
to be the extreme flaring and flatness
of the metazona in s9retzts and the
more nearly ~rectanguiar form of the
humeral angle as seen laterally in tile
same species.
M. atlmis Riley.- Genae and sides
of pronotum varying From yellowis11
testaceous to dark griseo-fuscons.
Markings of vertex of pronotum varia-
ble, vertex generally showing a dark
mottlcd stripe widening posteriorly and
a lighter mottled linear area between
this and the eye. Sometimes the ver-
tex is marked with irregular diffusion
of fuscous. Dorsum of pronotum dark
prisco-fuscous, sometimes miiforn~, and
noticeably darker along thc median
line ; or rarely, lighter in this position. Occurs quite generally over the State.
11K sprett~s U11ler.- In the field
work oF 1897 tins species was errone-
ously reported upon the determination
of another as having been taken in
Edwards county that season.* The
next season, 1898, a careful watch was
kept for its presence and on one norx xi- ing it was decided to ascertain approxi- mately the relative number of sprchs
and atlanis present along the county
line between Edwards and Ford conn-
ties north of the Arkansas river. 100
specimens of these closely allied forms
were taken, kept apart from other
materi;il, and Jetermined. It was
found that of this number 19 were
sfietus and 67 were atlams. This
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season again a special watch was kept These notes are here recorded since the for any sprehs which might be taken
during the collecting hours, resulting,
as we had supposed from observalions
in the field, in the taking of no speci- mcns of' sftretus whatever. On care-
ful examination of this .material, how-
ever, we find what we believe to be
one 'specimen of spretzu, a fcmale.
absence imcl recurrence of spreius is
never without interest. Not present in
tins territory in 1897, we find it in lim- itcd numbers in 1898 and this season
out of all the material taken during four weeks collecting in Hi~~nilton, Ford
and Russell counties but one ilonbtful
specimen among the captures.
THE GENUS KERMRS IN NORTH AMERICA.
BY GEO. B. KING, LAWREKCE, MASS.
When I first Lhouglit of writing upon
this genus it was my intention to take
up the Emopean species, but owing lo
the fact that I have not yet been able
to consult some of the more important
Europcan literature treating upon tlie
species found, and also that I wish to
possess or at least see most of the
species, I have abandoned it for tlie
present, and taken up our North
Amcrican forms. As there are not
sufficient specific microscopical char-
acters in the adult female to formulate
a table of the species I have thought it best to put them into sections, based
upon a superficizil examination of the
fcmale scale.
I. Section of Kermes galliformis
Riley. Globular forms, or nearly so,
Scales gibbous, segmentation distinci,
K. concinnultis and K. coclcrclli.
3. Section of Kermes nivalis King,
Ckll. Scales sloped like a convex
Lecaniiimi, not globulm or gibbous.
4. Section of K m e s andrei King.
Scales very convex, elongated or pyl-i-
form in shape.
Prof. Cockerell finds Boitard, in
1828, the earliest author to use Kermcs
as a true generic name. Of course
Kmes (as he says) was used 21s a
populiir term for many years before
Boitard's time, as will be seen when I
treat of the European species. The
total number of Kcrmes described is
26 and one variety, with one more yet
to be named by Newstead, found in
Africa. 'I1he name I<. querczts was
segmentation obscure ; not gibbous. proposed for it, but this is preoccupied. K. ioAztei, K. finlieseem, K ?u@w Europe has 12 and North America 15 å´punctafzts K. kinyli, K. ceriferzis, species and one variety. The Kerme- I<. fe///t/, K. aztsttni, K. frrads, sinae therefore contains 27 species and K. 1>e~ry& and K galliformis var.
one variety, all of which belong to one
caeroensis, n. var. genus, Keriizes. The localities which 2. Section of Kerme~~illettei Ckll. have produced new species in North



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