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PSYCHE.
SOME INSECTS OF THE HUDSONIAN ZONE IN NEW MEXICO. - I. From Aug. I to 4 of the present year
my wife and I had an opportunity to
collect the almost unknown fauna and
flora of the Hudsonian Zone in New
Mexico. The locality visited was the
summit of the range between the Pecos
and Sapello rivers, near the headwaters
of the Pecos. This is the main divide
between the Rio Grande and Mississippi
river systems, and has an elevation of
about 11,000 ft. The sides of the
range, from about 8000 ft. upwards,
possess a very uniform fauna and flora,
belonging to the Canadian Zone, When
we arrive at the summit however we find
a tableland of moderate width, inhab-
ited by a very different set of organ-
isms. The plants have the low stature
and large flowers so characteristic of al- pines, the bees are nearly all Bomtus
and among the butterflies we see Par-
nassius, Brenthis and Cottus scudderi.
The plants and mollusca will be re-
ported on elsewhere, but the insects and arachnids will all be enumerated in the
following pages, the several groups hav- ing been kindly worked up by those
who are most familiar with them.
When the series of articles has been
completed, it may be possible to add
some comments of a general nature.
T. D. A. COCKERELL.
ARACHNIDA.
BY NATHAN BANKS.
Pardosa glacialis Thorcll. One fe-
male. Known from boreal and sub-
boreal regions.
Xysticus gulosus Keys. One young
specimen. Known from a large part of
our country.
Dictyna sp. One female.
Erigone sp. One female.
Prosthesima sp. Several young
specimens ; near, and possibly identical with, P. tianda Bks.
Homolophus biceps Thorell. Five
specitnens ; previously known from Col-
orado, Wyoming, and Montana.




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PSYCHE. [November, 1900.
NEUROPTERA.
BY NATHAN BANKS.
Nemoura sp. One specimen, close-
ly related to the Eastern N. albidifennis Walk.
Limnophilus cockerelli n. sp.
Head yellowish; face with much yellow
and some long black hair, vertex with long yellow bristles; antenna: yellowish, feebly annulate with brown, basal joint long, brown on its outer side; thorax yellowish, with ^el- low hair and bristles; abdomen brown, yel- lowish at apex; legs light yellow, tips of tarsi more red-brown, on the lower outer side of each anterior femur is a short rather in- distinct brown line; spines black, numerous and rather short ; spurs yellowish, 2-3-4, not long. Wings of moderate length and
width, not prominently truncate at the tips; nearly unitonn dirty yellowish, surface with fine yellow hair, veins and margins with black bristles; veins in middle part of wing mostly brown, often interrupted with pale, other veins pale yellowish; costal region un- marked, pterostigma concolorous with resl of viing; discal cell is no longer than its ped- icel; hind wings hyaline.
Length, 10-12 mm.
Two specimens from top of range
between Sapello and Pecos River,
N. Mex., 2 Aug., altitude about 11,000
ft. In general appearances this species
is similar to a pale L. sitchfri.cic Kol., but distinct by unmarked pterostigma,
shorter discal cell, mark on basal joint of antenna, and line on [ore femur.*
p~
I t will be observed that we have Limnophilus in Triclioptera, while Mr. Coquillott, in a later seclion ORTHOPTERA.
BY SAMUEL H. SCUDDER.
The Orthoptera are all Acridiidae and
all northern types.
Camnula pellucida Scudd.
A widespread species extending, next
the Canadian border, from Atlantic to
Pacific. It is found throughout the
Rocky Mt. region and has even been
taken as far south as Yuma, Arizona, by
Morse.
Circotettix undulatus (Thorn.).
This has not before been reported
from so far south, but I have taken it
in southern Colorado, including the
sides of Sierra Blanca, just below timber line, or I 1-1 zooor. It is found at points above 7500' throughout Colorado, as
well as in Nebraska, Utah, Wyoming,
Montana and Nevada and is reported
from Washington and Vancouver Island.
Melanoplus cockerelli sp, nov.
Closely related to M. da-wso-stiScudd., from which it differs principally in the longer fur- cula, the much broader male cerci and the subgenital plate apically more elevated, and distinctly tliough minutely emarginate. The coloring is much as in that spccics. The describes a species of Liimiophila in Diptera. These a m nay be considered sufficiently distinct, but if not so mdered, the genus of Diptera has priority. The Tricb optemus Limnophiius is also antedated by J,i~nnopld~is Fitz., in Rcptilia, according to the dates given in the Noiiienclator Zoologicus ; but Hagen credits Limnophilu: to T.each, which would throw it before Fitxiup's mme. Banks (Tr. Am. Ent. Sue., XIX, :,63) writes Linmephilns Leach, and this ~ppeais also in the Nom. Zool., with the cbte 18'7, wliich is anterior to Maquart's Limnopl'iila it, Dipten It would seem belter lo avoid confusion, to keep the original spelling of Limiiephilus' Leach, and drop Linmophilus (Burm., 1869) as a homonym.-T. D. A C,



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interspace hetiveen the 1nesoste1-nu1 lobes is about half as lorig 8g";iin as broad (8) or scnrccly longer than broad (9). The teg- inina overlap and are conbiderably longer than the pronotuin and it little longer than in A/". dawsofii. The hind femora are stout I the male, red benenth, ~ilostly fuscous externall;. with oblique dashes of testaceous biisdly and the Snperior cai-ina tebtaceous;; much sleiiderer in the fennilc mid more
obscure ; hind tibiae deep red. becoming apically infnscated in the female. End of 111flle abdomen upcui-vcd and a little clavate, the supraanal plate moderate, triangiiliir, mesially constricted, the median sulcus shal- Iov with coarse walls; fiirciila consisting of a pair of blunt parallel spines about a third as long as the supraanal plate; cerci lami- nate, feebly Citlcii'wm, about twice ah lo~>gas basal width, feebly narrowing, well rounded apically, scarcely incurved; subgenilal plate rather sniall, subpyramidal, elevated a little apically and slightly ernasginate.
Length of body, j\ 19 inin., 9, 22 mm. ; hind lumora 8, 11 mm., 2, 12.35 mm.
Described ffbm I 8, i 9 .
Melanoplus altitudinum Scuclcl.
This species was taken by Lt. Carpen-
ter on Taos Peak in the Sangre de Cristo Mts., N. Mex., at 13000, and occurs at
high elevations (7-13ooo') in the Rocky
Mts. as far at least as Montana and
Dakota.
Melanoplus sapellanus sp. 11ov.
In yenerd coloring and markings hardly
distingnisli~l~le from M alfitii-dhium Scudd,, with wliich it agrees sovnevi-hat closely in structure, ti'iougli not so closely as will1 3-/. yustictts Slgl. The intei--spnce between the mesosternxi lobes is quadrate (8) or a litllc transverse (7). The tcgmina overlap and
are only n little longer than the pronoturn. The hind jeinorn. arc moderately stout in both sexes, red bcnest-th, the outer face almost wholly blackish fnscous, but elsewhere tes- taceons; hind tibiae red. End of male abdo- men hardly clavate or upturned, the supra- anal plate rather small, triangul~', rounded- tectate, with very slight median sulc~~s cx- tending as far as a slight transverse median ridge; f~~~cula consisting of a pair of parallel somewhat flattened dentations, about a third as long- :IS the supraanal plate; cerci very small, not greatly con~pressed, blunt tipped, gently lapering and slightly curved, reach- ing hut little beyond the transverse ridgeof the supraanal plate ; snbgenilal plate rather large, narrovrer than long, Iiaustrate, with straight lateral margins, and well rounded apical margin, in no ~ a y elevated.
Length of body, 3, 23 mm., ?,22.5 mm.;
hind femora, 8, 10 mm., 9, 13 mm.
Described from I $, 3 9 .
LEPIDOPTERA NOCTUIDAE.
BY J. B. SMITH.
Feltia vancouverensis Grt.
I 9. A common species throughout
the mountains of the west - extending
north into British Amcrica.
Carneades ochrogaster Gn.
2 females; throughout the Rocky
Mountain region, north into British
America; northern New York and New
England ; Ontario.
Orthodes virgula Grt.
Rocky Mountain region, not so com-
mon.
Plusia celsa Hy. Eclw.
i 9 . Described from " S. W. Ariz."
Not a common thing. Closely related
to my ungdideits from the high Rockies.
Plusia hochenwarthi I-Ioch.




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126 PSYCHE. [~ovember, qoo.
2 9. Not rare throughout the I 9. Common in the Colorado higher Rockies, and in the foothills in
Rockies.
British America.
Drasteria erechtea Cranier
Melicleptria villosa Grt. I 2. Common everywhere. NOTES ON THE SPECIES OF MACROPSIS AND AGALLIA OF NORTH AMERICA.
BY E. D. BALL, FORT COLLIXS, COLO,
In 1898 Osborn and Ball published a
review of the species of Agallia* in which thirteen species were included. A few
months later Mr. C. F. Baker in a paper
on the genus f described six species and one variety as new. Of these, five are
synonyms of species included in our
synopsis, leaving two to add to the list. The present paper adds three more,
making eighteen strictly N. A. species,
to which might be added five species by
Uhler from St. Vincent Isd. though not
strictly within our territory.
Agallia modesta 0. & B.
&aWa ~nmtcfcna Baker. Baker's
specimens were from the same locality
(Vera Cruz) from which modesfa was
described, and agree in every respect,
except that he gives the last ventral seg- ment of the 9 as " slightly concave."
If he had followed his own elaborate
*A review of the N. A. Species of Agallia. Proc. Dav, cad VII, pp. 45-64. Authors Separata mailed Jan, 26, a@.
t PSYCHE, April, 1898.
directions for viewing this segment (Ent. News Mch. '99, p. 91-92) lie would have
found it truncate as originally described. In his remarks after the description
^-notat# (used twice) should read
4-fuartiita and "this " in the last sen- tence should certainly be '< these " in- stead.
Agallia producta 6. & B.
Agallia hcydei Baker.
This species of
Baker's was also described fromthe same
locality from which the corresponding'
one of ours came. A comparison of the
descriptions will satisfy anyone of their identity. In his description of the fe-
male segment he says "to a shallowly
notched apex." The original descrip-
tion reads " truncate but often angularly elevated, giving the appearance ol a
slight median notch." Did lie follow
his own directions that lime? The
name 4-notata occurs three times in this description; there has been no species
described under that name. He must
certainly mean 4-punrtcita Prov.




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