PARHARMONIA; SOPHONA; BEMBECIA. By B. Zukowsky. 
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39. Genus: IParliarmonla Beut. 
Palpi extending forward, with appressed scales. Antennae long, filiform. Abdomen slender with a 
straight insignificant anal tuft. Hind tibiae with short hair. Forewing with 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked. Hind¬ 
wing: 4 and 5 on a short stalk at the end of the cell, vein la traceable, discocellular vein oblique. Proboscis 
developed. Type: P. pini Kell. 
P. pini Kell. (180 g). Head, palpi, antennae, thorax and legs metallic blue or greenish blue. Collar in pini. 
front somewdiat orange. Abdomen above black, the posterior half of the 4th segment orange, under surface 
and the anal tuft quite orange. Forewing metallic blue or greenish black, with a still more prominent discal 
mark. Hindwing scantily covered with bluish black scales, almost transparent with very narrow black margins. 
28—30 mm. Canada, New York. New Jersey, New Hampshire. — Larva in pine-trees underneath the' bark 
and in the upper wood in curved passages, indicated by semiglobular gall-like formations interspersed with 
resin, frequently situate very high on the trunks or twigs. The pupation takes place in a silky cocoon in the 
hardened excrescences in May, June. The imago appears in June till August. 
P. piceae Dyar. Bluish black. All the wings hyaline, forewing with a black costal margin, the cross- piceae. 
vein and the distal margin also black, the apex broadly black. Antennae black. The interior edge of the patagia 
red. Palpi inside at the base, anterior coxae outside, and irregular spots on the inside of all the tibiae also red. 
anterior tarsi reddish, middle tarsi inside reddish, posterior tarsi black. Abdomen with scattered red scales 
on the under surface, forming a defined double spot on the 3rd segment, unicoloured black above. 25 mm. 
Hoquiam, Keyport (Washington). — The larva lives in Picea sitchensis. 
40. Genus: Soplioiia Wkr. 
Body rather long. Proboscis mostly absent. Palpi moderately long, slightly hairy, the 3rd joint pointed. 
Antennae bristle-shaped, hairy below, as long as the thorax. Abdomen fusiform, more than twice as long as 
the thorax, with a feeble anal tuft. Legs strong, tibiae with hair-tufts in the middle and at the end. Hind 
tarsi very thickly and strongly haired. Wings very narrow, forewing scaled, hindwing transparent. 
S. halictipennis Wkr. $: purple. Head whitish. Palpi whitish, black beneath. Thorax with three yellow halictipen- 
stripes. Abdomen with a narrow yellow band near the base, white beneath. Tibiae and tarsi chiefly brownish ni 
yellow, the tibiae with black hair-tufts. Forewing purple black with ash-coloured distal marks. Hindwing 
almost quite transparent. 18 mm. Villa nova. — flavizonata subsp. nov. (180 g). Collar, between the eyes, as flavizonata. 
well as the anterior coxae light yellow, no stripes on the thorax. Abdomen as in the nomenclatural form with 
a narrow yellow band near the base, the last three segments posteriorly edged with light yellow, the anal tuft 
light orange. Legs as in halictipennis , black above, light grey beneath. Fore wing purple black, semitransparent 
in the distal area, hindwing transparent. 15 mm. Rio de Janeiro. Collected by Prof. Seitz. Type: Senckenberg 
Museum at Frankfort on the Main. 
41. Genus: Bemfoecia Hbn. 
Palpi erect, but not reaching the head, with rather long hair at the origin. Head small, thorax convex 
in front. Abdomen strong, with somewhat projecting hair on the 1st and 2nd segments. Anal tuft of the $ 
short, broad and flat, insignificant in the $. Middle and hind femora as well as tibiae hairy. Antennae short, 
dentate in the plain in the $. Proboscis absent. Forewing with 11 veins, 7 and 8 stalked. 2 absent. Distal 
margin of hindwing curved, the veins 4 and 5 on a long stalk, 3 parallel with it. Discocellular vein straight. Type: 
B. hylaeiformis Lasp. from Europe. 
B. marginata Harr. (= plaeciaeformis Grt., odyneripennis Wkr., rubi Riley, flavipes Hulst .) (180 f). marginata 
Head brown, orbita, palpi and collar yellow. Antennae black. Thorax deep brownish black with yellow mark¬ 
ings. Abdomen deep brownish black with yellow rings on the posterior part of each segment, extending all 
around. Anal tuft yellow and black; quite yellow in the $ like the last segment, too. Legs yellow, femora and 
tibiae outside partly black. Forewing transparent with broad brown margins, a lighter inner margin and intense 
discal marking. Under surface more yellow, especially at the base. Hindwing with a narrow brown margin, 
all the veins brown. 20—35 mm. August, September. Canada to the west as far as the Gulf of Georgia, Van¬ 
couver, New England, Central States to the w^est as far as Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and Nebrasca. The 
eggs are singly deposited on the lower parts of the stalks of blackberry and raspberry, from where the larva 
penetrates into the crown of the root; the adult larva goes into the old stalks of the previous year, where it 
pupates. The pupa has a sharp three-edgecl point on its head for piercing the outward skin, while it emerges. 
The species is the counterpart of the palaearctic hylaeiformis . — var. albicoma Hulst. Head, thorax and ab- aTbicoma. 
clomen deep sooty black with very pale yellow, almost white rings. The yellow is also less extensive, so that 
the three first segments are mostly quite black. Legs with more black. Otherwise like marginata. 23—27 mm. 
New York and New Jersey. 
