1893.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 97 



NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS DESCRIBED 

 IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE. 



ARACHNIDA. 

 Araneina: Anoka peckhamiQocV^r&W, Jour. Inst. Jam. I, p. 222, Jamaica. 

 Phalanginse: Lacinius texanus 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, clausus, 

 p. 34, Cal. 



Eurosta bigelovice Townsend, Can. Ent. xxv, p. 49, N. Mex. 



HEMIPTERA. 

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

 xxv, pp. 53-56. 

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

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



HYMENOPTERA. 



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

 kS". mexicanus, p. 66, Mex.; 6". guttulatus, p. 67, Mex.; S. xaytthochrous, 

 p. 69, Tex. 



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

 Oxybelus {Oxybeloides) coluvibiatius, 208, Brit. Col., Wash. 



Coleocentrus canadensis Harrington, Can. Ent. xxv, p. 30, Ont.; Ec- 

 thrus rufopedibus, p. 31, Montreal. 



Bracon ani/i onotni Ashmead, Ins. Life, v, p. 185; Catolaccus anthonomi, 

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



LEPIDOPTERA. 



Clisiocampa ambisimilis Dyar, Can. Ent. xxv, p. 40, Cal. ; C. pluvialiSy 

 p. 42, Oreg., Wash. 



Among the various contrivances resorted to as a safeguard against the 

 bee-moth {Galleria cereana 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 mom. — Cowan's 

 Curious Facts. 



