

(A.) 



SOME EXTRA-LIMITAL INSECTS.^ 



Carpocapsa saltitans Westwood, 



And its Jumping Seeds. 



(Ord. Lepidopteka : Fam. Tokteicid^.) 

 Westwood: in Proe. Ashmolean Soc, iii, 1857, pp. 137-8 ; in Trans. Lend. Ent. See, ser. 2, 



iv, 1858, p. 27 ; in Gard. Chron., 1859, p. 909. 

 Lucas: in Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. iii, vi, 1859 — Bull., pp. 10, 33, 41, 44 (as Carpocapsa 



Behaislana) ; ib., vii, pp, 561-566 (as G. JDeshaisiana). 

 Lintnee: in Albany Argus, for Oct. 11, 1875 ; in Proc. Alb. Institute, ii, 1878, pp. 264-266. 



in Count. Gent, xlix, 1884, p. 757; in Bull. Brook. Entomolog. Soc, vii, 1884, p. 92. 

 Eiley: in Trans. St. Louis Acad. ScL, iii, 1875, p. cxc. ; in Amer. Nat., x, 1876, pp. 216-218; 



in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 188, pp. 632-635, fig. 

 Dodge: in Field and Forest, ii, 1876. p. 54-5. 

 Feenald: Cat. Tortric. N. A., 1882, p. 54, No. 396; in Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, x, 1882. 



The Seeds. 



The so-called " Mexican jumping seeds," whenever observed, excite so 

 much curiosity that the following information is offered of them. 



The seeds are about four-tenths of an inch long, and of about the same 

 width, smooth on the outer surface, bisected by lines which show them to 

 be two-valved, and of a form indicating that they had been united in a 

 globular three-celled ovary. In shape they are sub-triangular, their two 

 inner sides plain and meeting at an obtuse angle, and the outer side 

 rounded. They are shown in two views in the figure, at e and/. They are 

 known to the inhabitants of Sonora as " brincaderos," meaning jumpers. 



History of tlie Insect. 



Their peculiar jumping movements have made them objects of much 

 interest since they were first brought to scientific notice in the year 1857, 

 through specimens 

 sent from Mexico by 

 the British Charge 

 d'Affaires, and exhibit- 

 ed to the Entomologi- 

 cal Society of London 

 by the secretary. The 

 seeds were said to be 

 a species of Ewpliorhia, 



and they were sup- Fig. 63.— Carpocapsa saltitans; a, the larva; 6, the pupa; 

 posed to contain a c, the moth ; d, wing of a pale variety ; e, seed with pupa- 

 lepidopterous larva, case ; /, seed from its lower side. 



* The insects herewith noticed are not known to the writer to occur in the State of 

 New York, and are therefore separated from the " Injurious and other Insects of the 

 State of New York " of the precedinglpages. 



