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PSYCHE 



[August, 1902 



of the same species, is not to be entirely 

 overlooked, even though it be highly 

 improbable. The discovery of such 

 appendages on a Trichopterous larva 

 would, indeed, be sufficiently surprising. 

 The gills of Trichopterous larvae are 

 simple or tufted filaments ; and the 

 larvae of the Hydroptilidae, so far as 

 known, do not possess even these. 

 Stout processes, articulated at the sides 

 of the abdomen and arranged segmen- 

 tally are entirely unknown in this order, 

 but occur in certain Coleopterous and 

 Neuropterous larvae. Most like the 

 appendages of our prepupa are the 



lateral filaments of the larvae of Sialidae, 

 especially, of Sialis : here the several 

 jointed lateral processes are articulated 

 to the sides of the abdomen. In 

 Sisyra and Cliniacia (family Hemero- 

 biidaeof Neuroptera) are similar, jointed 

 filaments directed toward the midventral 

 line beneath the abdomen. 



I am inclined to believe that these 

 appendages are inherited from some 

 remote, primitive Neuropterous type. I 

 regard them as belonging in the same 

 category as the large, transitory mandi- 

 bles of the pupa. 



RECORDS OF THE HABITS OF NEW MEXICAN COLEOPTERA. 



BY T. D. A. COCKERELL, EAST LAS VEGAS, N. MEX. 



Unless the contrary is specified, the 

 authority for the identification is in every 

 case Mr. H. C. Fall, to whom I am 

 under the greatest obligations. When 

 the collector's name is not given, the 

 material was collected by the present 

 writer. Tow'nsend = C. H. T. Town- 

 send. Wooton = F'.. O. Wooton. 



Cicbidcla spcrata Lee. Rincon, July 

 5 ; numerous in the bed of the Rio 

 Grande, copulating. 



Hippodamia sinuata Muls. Mescal- 

 ero, on Chrysothamnus gmvcolcns glah- 

 ratits, Oct. I. 



CoccincIIa oculata Fab. Mescalero, 

 on Chiysoihamnus graveolens glahratus , 

 Oct. 2. 



Fsyllobora 20-macuIaia Say. Rio 

 Ruidoso, about 6500 ft., on Rhus glabra, 

 July 24. (Townsend). 



Chrysobothris cariHipennis Lee. Rio 

 Ruidoso, about G500 ft., on cut pine 

 branches, Aug. 4. (Townsend). 



Chrysobothris dcbilis Lee. (det. Wick- 

 ham). In coitu on Prosopis g/aiidu/osa, 

 May 13, 1S92. (Townsend). 



Acmceodcra sparsa Horn. Organ 

 Mts., back of S. Augustine, on Chrysop- 

 sis villosa. Sept. i. (Wooton) ; Rio 

 Ruidoso, about 6500 ft., on flowers of 

 Achillea minefoliiim, July 30. (Town- 

 send). 



A. disjunct a Fall. La Cueva, Organ 

 Mts. (Townsend). I collected one at 



