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April, too11 PSYCH. 191
cast larval skin projecting behind. The
shape is peculiar. Nearly straight along the ventral line, the head projecting a little ven- trally and a slight indentation at base of wing cases. Dwsmn angled at the mesono-
turn and first abdominal segment, then ta- pering to the anal segment ; wjng cases raised a little at their margins. No ci emaster, the anal end smooth and rounded, glued firmly in the end of the cast skin, from which it is with difficulty dissociated. Integument
soft and delicate; pupa motionless. Thickly overlaid purplish dots and mottlings on a whitish ground, interspersed with a few
orange colored specks especially along the dorsal line posteriorly and about the spira- cles; wing cases purplish shaded, somewhat wrinkly.
Food +lad wild violet, on the leaves of
which the larvae feed. Double brooded, the second generation said to hibernate as partly grown Ian ae. Doubtless this generation
has more than four stages; the first genera- tion is the one here described.
OCCURRENCE OF MELANOPLUS EXTRRMUS
IN NORTHERN LABRADOR, -In 1864 during
a summer spent on the Labrador Coast, I
found a Pexotettlx-like species of Melano- plus, with short wings, at Square Island, but the species was not determined.
Last summer Prof. E. B. Delabarre during his expedition to northern Labrador ob-
served and collected some locusts, and
kindly presented me with three specimens. One is from Nachvak, collected at a point two miles inland from the harbor, and two others at Cape Mugford directly on the
coast, at a point ;o0-400 feet above the level of the sea. The locusts were common locally, in spots. Dr. Scudder has kindly identified them as Malano$liis exirenius jnnins, This is its first occurrence in the Labrador peninsula, the species occnrring throughout British America and on the
summit of Mt. Washington, K. H.
A. S. PacIsard,
OCCCRREKCE UF AXOPHELKS QUADRIMAC-
ULATLS w MAIM. - It may be well to note
the northernmost point where an undoubted Anopheles has been found, and identified by an expert. In a list of Diptera named for me by Baron vou Osten Sacken, the highest living authority on Uiptei-a, and especially those of this country, is the name of this mosquito. The insect was collected and
named for me about the rears 1861-3. It
was not uncommon at Brun&w'ck, Maine.
I am therefore familiar with this species, having taken it several times since that date. So far as I am aware no malaria has as yet been known to exist in Maine, and there
at least Anopheles exists with a conscience clear in re malarias.
A. S. Packard.
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