98 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xvii 



molasses flavored with fusel oil. It is very easy to carry a small bottle 

 of fusel oil into the country, where molasses can usually be procured 

 at the village store. Nothing has a more groggy odor, and explana- 

 tions are to be made in prohibition communities and to one's unento- 

 mological friends. 



At sugar, Mr. Pollard and the writer each caught Catocala cocci- 

 nafa, C. siini/is and C. gracilis. The last two were also collected on 

 the tree trunks in the day time. Hardly any other moth came to the 

 sugar, but the long-legged Orthopterous insect, Atlanticits dorsalis, was 

 in attendance. Both males and females were thus attracted. 



In the way of insect architecture we found several sheds made by 

 Cremastogaster pilosa over the Coccidae on the twigs of the pitch pine, 

 and a great many of the tubes made with silk and sand by the larvae 

 of Prionopteryx nebulifcra. These usually led from the underground 

 chamber, where the larva was to be found, up the stem of a huckle- 

 berry bush to the foliage. Sometimes the food plant was sand myrtle 

 {^LeiopJiylhim biixifolium^, and Dr. Lutz found one instance where the 

 caterpillar had carried many of the sand myrtle leaves into its burrow. 

 Mr. Daecke has an account of these sand-tubes and their builder in 

 Entomological N^eivs iox January, 1905. Mr. Kearfott has also made 

 observations upon them. 



Mr. Doll collected many caterpillars, Mr. Dow many beetles, Mr. 

 Olsen a goodly number of bugs, and no doubt there were many con- 

 spicuous finds here unnoticed. And as to all of the little things who 

 can say, for the entomologist always dwells in the land of the unknown. 



V 



A NEW HONEY ANT FROM CALIFORNIA. 



By William Morton Wheeler, 

 Boston, Mass. 



Myrmecocystus lugubris, new species. 



Worker. — Length 2.5-4 ™'i'- 



Head distinctly longer than broad, subrectangular, very nearly as broad in front 

 as behind, with straight subparallel sides and rounded posterior border. Eyes some- 

 what more than one fifth as long as the sides of the head, more convex and larger than 

 in M. nielliger Forel, smaller than in Al. mexicanus Wesmael. Ocelli very small. 

 Mandibles 7-toothed, the apical tooth longest and curved. Glypeus convex but not 

 caiinate, with broadly and evenly rounded, but not projecting, anterior border. Fron- 

 tal area obsolescent. Maxillary palpi very long and slender, their terminal joint not 



