1893-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 97 



NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS DESCRIBED 

 IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE. 



ARACHNIDA. 



Araneina: Anoka peckhami Cockerell, Jour. Inst. Jam. I, p. 222, Jamaica. 

 Phalanginae: Lacinins texamis Banks, Psyche vi, p. 403, E. Tex. 



COLEOPTERA. 



Longicornia: New genera and species from Mexico and Central Amer., 

 Gahan, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1892, pp. 255-273. 



DIPTERA. 



Blacodes cristatus Coquillett, Can. Ent. xxv, p. 33, B. truncus, claitsiis, 

 p. 34, Cal. 



Eurosta bigelovi<% Townsend, Can. Ent. xxv, p. 49, N. Mex. 



HEM1PTERA. 



Membracidae: Six new species, St. Vincent, \V. I., Coding, Can. Ent. 

 xxv, pp. 53-56. 



Aspidiotuspalmce Cockerell, Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), iv, p. 39, Jamaica. 

 Diaspis tentaculatus Morgan, 1. c., p. 41, Jamaica. 



HYMENOPTERA. 



Stizus nanus Handlirsch, Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. Wien, CI, i Abth., p. 61. Ga.; 

 6". mexicanus, p. 66, Mex.; .S. guttulatus, p. 67, Mex.; .5". xanthochrous', 

 p. 69, Tex. 



Stigmus temproalis Kohl, Ann. Naturh. Hofmus. vii, p. 204, Guatemala; 

 Oxybelus (Oxybeloides] columbianus, 208, Brit. Col., Wash. 



Coleocentnts canadcnsis Harrington, Can. Ent. xxv, p. 30, Ont.; Ec- 

 thrus rufopedibns, p. 31, Montreal. 



Brae on anthonomi Ashmead, Ins. Life, v, p. 185; Catolaccus anthonovii, 

 p. 185; C. incertus, p. 186, D. C. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



Clisiocampa ainbisiinilis Dyar, Can. Ent. xxv, p. 40, Cal.; C. pluz'ialis, 

 p. 42, Oreg., Wash. 



Among the various contrivances resorted to as a safeguard against the 

 bee-moth (Galleria ccrcana Fab.), perhaps the most ingenious is that 

 mentioned by Langstroth, of governing the entrances of all the hives by 

 a long lever-like hen roost, so that they may be regularly closed by the 

 crowing and cackling tribe when they go to bed at night, and opened 

 again when they fly from their perch to greet the merry morn. C(>:cti/i's 

 Curious Facts. 



