96 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. v. 



GLUPHISIA SEVERA IN NEW JERSEY. 



By Harrison G. Dyar. 



Fourteen larv?e of this species were collected by Mr. Beutenmiiller 

 and the writer at Fort Lee, N. J., in May, 1S96. The larvae pupated 

 early in Juns; imago in April, 1897, of the form avimacula Hudson. 

 The food-plant was Popnlus grandidentata. Stages IV. and V. were 

 observed, differing in no respect from Californian examples (see Dr. 

 Packard's monograph, p. 98) eggs were obtained from a bred 9 . They 

 correspond exactly with my description except that there is no black 

 spot at the micropyle. This spot in the Californian egg was probably 

 unnatural. The reticulation of the eggs are very small and rather ob- 

 scure. This species is probably not particularly rare, but escapes obser- 

 vation on account of the unusually early date of appearance. 



A NEW ALEURODES ON RUBUS FROM FLORIDA. 



By T. D. a. Cockerell. 

 Aleurodes ruborum, sp. nov. 



9 . Very minute, about orhardly i mm. long; body and legs pale lemon yellow; 

 wings pure white, spotless. The main nervure appears to fork as in Aleurodicus, but 

 only the lower branch is a real nervure, the nervure bending at the apparent fork, 

 which is only a little more than half way from the base of the wing ; the apparent 

 upper fork is simply a fold. The second nervure arises from the main nervure nearly 

 at the base of the wing. The margins of the wings, after maceration in caustic soda, 

 appear delicately beaded. Eyes not completely divided. Antennae 7-jointed, second 

 joint excessively stout, its breadth at top, which is obliquely truncate, being at least 

 as great as that of basal portion of femur. Third joint long, cylindrical, coarsely 

 ringed throughout; fourth short and oval, broader than third; fifth narrow, cylin- 

 drical, a little longer than fourth, and very much narrower; sixth cylindrical, al- 

 most or quite as long as 4+5 ; seventh shorter than sixth, but longer than fifth; third 

 about as long as 4-|-5-[-6. Anterior tibia very slender, its distal end swollen. 

 Middle and hind tibia not nearly twice as long as their tarsi. Genitalia ordinary. 



Pupa: About 4 mm. long, oval, flat, delicately transversely ribbed, with a delicate 

 fringe of long, glossy rods, easily broken off; the longest of these rods may be almost 

 or quite as long as the breadth of the pupa. Color of pupa black ; by transmitted light 

 after boiling in caustic soda extremely dark Vandyke brown. Margin presenting at 

 intervals round, clear orifices, about 14 on each side. Vasiform orifice an elongate 

 triangle, the base about two-thirds the length of a side ; operculum heart-shaped, or 

 approximately so, with the corners rounded and the base about as long as a side ; 

 lingua projecting only a little beyond, the projecting portion semilunar in outline, 

 showing seme tendency to crenulation, after the manner of A. erigerontis. 



