274 



FSYCHE. 



[November, igoi 



bercles ii ot joints 8 and 12 on a rounded 

 papilla, the other tubercles slightly or not 

 prominent. Brown, dark dorsally, wood- 

 brown and yellowish ventrally, finely waver- 

 inglv and narrowly lined in dark brow^n ; sub- 

 ventral fold sordid bluish white on joints S 

 to 10; a white stigmatal band on joints 2 to 

 4 and 10 to 13, composed of a vague shading 

 through which run fine whitish lines. Feet 

 colored like the venter, tho.se of joint 13 with 

 a white line. Spiracles black ringed. Tu- 

 bercles and setae black, the latter short. 



Stage V. (interpolated.) Head rounded, 

 flatten^'ed, sometimes held fiatly ; mouth short, 

 antennae small. Brown, obscurely mottled 

 with darker ; a pale line at the base of the 

 clypeus to ocelli, the sides below and labium 

 pale; width 2.1 mm. Body flattened cylin- 

 drical, thoracic feet moderate, appressed, the 

 abdominal ones large. Tubercle ii of joint 

 8 conicallv produced, of .12 similar, but the 

 pair more approximate, a pair of subanal 

 prongs; else smooth, the other tubercles not 

 elevated. Brown, the dorsum uniformly and 

 smoothly so except in a distant white half- 

 ring before the lump on joint 8 and whitish 

 fine linings on the thorax and joints 10-13. 

 Subvenlral fold narrowly whitish lined ; ven- 

 ter pale, blotched in red, finely dark lined 

 and with the tubercles dark. Venter of joints 

 10-13 broadly whitish; a series of medioven- 

 tral elongate, dark brown patches. 



Sia<^e VI. Less smoothly purplish brown, 

 more wood-brown, and more lined dorsally. 

 Head 2.6 mm. Reddish and white points at 

 the dorsal tubercles. Joint 3 held in a collared 

 shape, lumpv on the sides and red streaked 

 there. Feet bunched and head held erect or 

 else the head held flatly without the collared 

 prominence on thorax. Half ring before the 

 lump on joint S distinct, white, the tubercles 

 ii of this segment dark. Dorsum of jonit 12 

 also with a pair of prominent tubercles; sub- 

 ventral fold raised. When fully fed the color 

 became a light wood brown. Cocoon of a 

 few coarse threads between leaves. Prob- 

 ably at least double brooded. Larvae trom 



Bellport, New York, the eggs August 7- 

 mature larvae September 12th. Fed readily 

 on apple, the natural food plant not deter- 

 mined. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES.-X.* 



By Samuel Henshaw. 



BioLOGiA Centrali-A.mericana.— Or- 

 THOPTERA. Vol.1. By Henri de Saussure, 

 Leo Zehntner, A. Pictet, and A. de Bormans. 



gen. sp. 



Forficulidae, 1S93, pt. no, in, P- 



1-12. H +' 



Blattidae, 1893, pt. 111-113. P- 13- 



104; 1894, pt. 114, P- IO.^-■-3■ 44 156 



Mantidae, 1S94, pt. ii4-ii7'P- 1-3" 



2^ 61 



197- 

 Gryllidae, 1S94, pt. 1 17, p. 198-200 i 

 1896, pt. 132, p. 201-216; 1S97, pt. 

 133-135, p. 217-284. 34 106 



Locustidae, 1897, pt. iS.'S-'Sg. P- 285- 

 344J 1898, pt. 140, 142. 144' HS. P- 

 345-456; 1899, pt. 146, p. 457-458 87 272 

 Nine <renera and 79 species of Blattidae, 12 

 ..enera .and 53 sP^'^i^s of Mantidae, 3 genera 

 and 25 species of Gryllidae, and 20 genera 

 and 107 species of Locustidae are noticed in 

 the text that are not included in the above 

 enumeration ; these represent allied extra- 

 limital forms. 



Of the 636 species recorded from Central 

 America, 2 Forficulidae, 7 Blattidae, 6 Man- 

 tidae, 17 Gryllidae, and 14 Locustidae, a 

 total of 46, a're found in America north of 

 Mexico. 



Species of the following genera are fig- 

 ured : — . 

 Fo;/<-h/iV/«<'.— Ancistrogaster, 2. Aniso- 



labis, 1. Diplatvs, i- *Echinopsalis, 1. 



Forficula, 2. Labia, 1. Neolobophora, 2. 



Opisthocosmia, i. Psalis, 1. Sparatta, i. 

 Sphingolabis, 2. Spongophora, 2. 



*For IX see Psyche viii, 141 



