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Psyche 9:430, 1900.

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430 J?S 1 CHAT. [December, &2
edge of a problem of much biological interest. species of the family are given.
The paper
Mrs. Dorsey summarizes her observations
is unusually well supplied with drawings, in in a special discussion of aleurodid develop- which work Mrs. Dorsey has been aided by menl.
A list with references, together with
Mary Wellman, scientific artist.
an analytical table, of all the North Amcrican Vet-~zmz L. Kelloy^.
THE PUPA OF MERMIRIA TKXANA BRUNER.
BY T. U. A. COECKRELL, EAST LAS VEGAS, N. MEX. Orthopterists have not usually paid
much attention to the pupae of grass-
hoppers ; partly, no doubt, because they rarely offer any remarkable characters,
and partly because they often shrivel
and lose their natural colors, when
pinned in the cabinet. The pupa of
Mervni9-i~ texana, now described, is a
very striking and beautiful creature
when alive, and it seems well worth
while to present an account of it.
2. Length 34-36 ~n~n., antennae 104
mm., dorsal surface of head 55 mm.,
pronoturn 5+ mm., tegmina 8 nun., end
of tegmina to tip of abdomen
16-18
mm., femur 16 mm,, tibia 15 mm.,
breadth of thorax 4 nim. 2 I spines on
outer margin of hind tibia. Brown of
various shades, with pure white longitu- dinal stripes; top of head with a broad
median longitudinal pale sepia band,
narrowly edged with darker; on each
side of this a broad pale apricot or red- dish-ocherous band, clouded with pale
gray, and externally bordered with
white, the white border running through
the upper edge of the eye; next to this
a broad dark sepia band, also bordered
below with white; then a dilute gray
band, marbled with lighter veins and at
its lower part spotted with darker ; this lower spotted part bordered below with
white; running from below the eye,
bordering on the lateral carinae of the
face, is a pale reddish-ochreous band.
Eye gray, its upper part spotted, its
lower part striped with grayish-white.
Face gray mottled with blackish, the
median carinae pale. Antennae a warm
brown, distinctly triquetrous towards
base, not nearly so broad as the shorter diameter of the eye. The prothorax
continues the longitudinal markings of
the head, but the median zone, is mot-
tled with dark gray, and its ground-color is inclined to purple, with the median
casina, which is very distinct, is indi- catcd by a pale line. The subdorsal
dark band passes backwards along the
thorax and abdomen, crossing the tcg-
mina, which thus have their lower half
dark and the upper a light warm rcddish- ochreous. On the sides of the thorax
the dark band is bioadly bordered below
by white ; but on the abdomen it is nar- row, and is bordered above by white.




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The abdomen is strongly keeled dorsally, the region of the keel being purplish,
somewhat mottled, and changing into
light ochrco~~s above the white (inter-
rupted) subdorsal lines. Sides of abdo-
men mottled with purplish and dull
white. Femora with an ochreous line
above, and a white line at the sides
marking the ridges. Tibiae pale pur-
plish, mottled with pink at sides, with a dark gray stripe beneath. Spines rosy,
tipped with black.
$ . Green form. Similar but apple
green in place of brown, and hardly any
mottling; median zone of head and pro-
thorax a dull emerald green, not mottled. Lateral band a deep olive-green, the
white edging very distinct and beautiful. Ground-color of tibiae pale bluish.
Hab. Las.Vegas Hot Springs, N. M.,
July 11, 1899.
(W. Porter and S. Mize.)
I give also a brief description of the
adult from the same place:
No~~s.-Carabus nemoralis Miill. is taken not uncommonly at Cambridge, Mas. Other
North American records are IIudson's Bay, St. John, N. B., and Maine.
In Caterpillars and their moths (KcwYork. The Century Company, I~o?,), Miss Eliot and Miss Soulc record their long and varied ex- periences in the rearing of moths. Chapters one LO six, pages 3-66, deal with appliances, structure, habits, methods of care, preserva- tion, note-taking, etc.; and chapters seven to seventeen, pages 69-299, are devoted to more or less detailed life histories of a num- ber of common moths, chiefly sphinsgine and bombycine.
The text, with the exception oi the part re- 9.
Like the pupa, but colors grayer,
not so reddish; hind tibiae coral red.
Tegmina blackish with a yellowish~white
subcostal stripe and another stripe in the median field, beginning abruptly just be- low the middle of the tegmen; a longi-
tudinal ochreous stripe along the lower
margin continuous and concolorous with
the siibdorsal stripes of the thorax.
Wings tinged with yellowish, apical
third dusky. 17 spines on outer mar-
gin of hind tibia. Measurements in mm.:
antenna, 16, vertex 54, pronotum 63,
tegmina 30, end of pronotum to tip of
abdomen 294, hind femur 214, hind tibia
19b (Aug. 10, 1899. W. Porter). The
adult was kindly determined by Mr.
Scudder. Brunner found the species
only among Agave; it did not occur
near or upon Agave at Las Vegas Hot
Springs. The tegmina in our form are
appreciably shorter than in Bruner's
types.
siting; to structure, is quite satisfactory so far as facts are concerned, hut from a literary standpoint it lacks simplicity. The collo- quialness of the stvie iind the frequeiit use of 'One ot L's," six times on a single ps~ge, is especially displeasing.,
The illustrations are l'rom photographs by Miss Edith Eliot and show the caterpillars and spread moths of most of the species
treiiled. Those of the caterpillars are uni- formly good, while those oi the moths are more uneven us properly spread specimens were not always selected lor illustration. The index even as a list of names is inade- quate ;md tlic rendering of some of the scien- tific names shows careless proof reading.



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