vgrgo - downloads.hindawi.com

June x893.] PSUCHtL 479

here concerning the other two species referredto,--S, macul@ennis Scudd. and S. aequalisScudd. From my collections gathered dur-ing the last three seasons and notes concern-ingthem taken in the field, I am fully con-vinced of the distinctness of these species.

S. aequaNs I have found one of the mostplentiful locusts in New England, everywherecommon on dry soil, and very variouslycolored. With this species I unite S. biN-nealus Scudd.

S. macul@ennis on the other hand I havetaken only in Southern New England, wherehave found it most plentiful near the coast,

preferring sandy soils. This species also isvery variously colored. Individuals of bothspecies may be wholly either brown or greenor any mixture of the two, but green malesare the least common of any of the forms andin some places are exceedingly scarce. Notinfi’equently specimens show considerable

rose-red above or may be very largely black-ish-fuscous throughout.The struct’ural characters presented by the

head, vertex, and pronotum are the bestmeans of separating these species from eachother and from olivaceus, but the length and

markings of the tegmina are also helpful.It may be of interest in this connection to

state that I have examined some of the speci-mens collected by Prof. S. I. Smith at Nor-way, Me., and referred to in his paper on the

Orthoptera of Maine as S. nacul@ennis, and

also some in the collection of Cornell Univer-

sity collected in New York and referred to in

Prof. Comstock’s Introduction to Entomologyunder the same name. Allofthese am dis-

posed to consider as belonging to aequaNs.Some of the Norway, Me., specimens show

an unusual length of wing but assuredly are

not macul@ennis Scudd. I have also exam-ined the types in Mr. Scudder’s collection.

ADDITIONS TO THE LIST OF BOMBYCES AT POUGHKEEPSIE.

BY HARRISON G. DYAR, BOSTON, MASS.

In the August, i89t, number ofPsyche I gave a list of the Bombycesfound in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and in-cluded four species of Arctia. Furtherstudy has shown that this list must beincreased to seven species. From nayseries of A. virgo I have picked out twospecimens which are referable to #/.

intermedia Str. They are of the formin which the markings of the fore wingsare practically as in A. virgo, beingless extensive than in Stretch’s figure.This form differs from A. bartheniceKirby only in size, and may prove to bea southern race of it. Parlhenice occursnot rarely at Plattsburgh, N. Y. but Ihave never met with it in DutchessCounty. The d genitalia of these forms

do not differ specifically. I have madedrawings from balsam mounts andcannot find any differences which are

greater than the range of individualvariation. From the same parts in /.

vgrgo they differ slightly and probablyto a degree which is specific.Under the term na[s in my list were

included all the forms with the patternof marking of that species. I am nowsatisfied that we have not two species,nais and clecorata, as they stand inProfessor Smith’s list, but three welldefined and distinct species, differing inmarkings of the moth, in the larva ac-

cording to the observations of Prof. G.H. French and Mr. j. Doll, and in thestructure of the o genitalia. In another

480 PSICttE [June

paper, in conjunction with Mr. Neu-moegen, I give at some length descrip-tions of these species. Here I will givethe synonymy, the accompanying figuresof the genitalia and a table of species.

Some of the synonyms given belowmay be worthy of varietal rank; but Ihave not access to all the publicationsand cannot determine the matter.* Thereferences are from Kirby’s Catalogueof Lepidoptera Heterocera, Vol. I.

EUPRIPIA (_A_PANTESIS) NAIS Drury.1773 --Drury, Iit. ex. ent., i, pl. 7, f. 3.

Aroctua.cuneata Goeze.i78i--Goeze, Ent. Beytr., iii (3) P. 65, n.

IOl. dVOCllg.

defloriana Martyn.

have not seen defloriana Martyn vittata Fabr.The form of nais described by Butler as ochreata isworthy of varietal rank if it is different from defloriana;also the two forms of vittata with red and yellow hindwings respectively, when the names can be correctlyassorted.

1797 --Mart., Psyche, pl. 28, ft. 78, 79. Bom-

ockreata Butler.1881nButl., Ent. mo. mag., xviii, I36

Arctia.

E. (A.) PttA,ERATA Harris.

I84I- Harr. Ins. Mass., p. 274. Arctiarkoda Butler.I88nButl., Ent. mo. mag., xviii, I36.

Arclia.

incomdMeta Butler.I88I--Butl., Ann. mag. nat. hist., ()

viii, 311. Arctia.

E. (A.) VTa’ATA Fabricius.

1787 Fabr., Mant. ins., ii, p. I7, n. 164.Bombyx.radians Walker.I855Walk., Cat. Brit. mus., iii, 63.

A23anlesis.decorata Saunders.

t863 S:und., Proc. ent. soc. Phil., ii, 60ArcNa.

colorata Walker.I864Walk., Cat. Brit. mus., xxxi, 3oi.

Aloa.

In tabular form, the specific differencesappear thus :

A. Costal edge of primaries black.a. Secondaries ocher yellow, rarely tingedwith pink; dorsal abdominal black bandtapering posteriorly. nais.

B. Costal edge of primaries yellow, exceptat apex.

a. Expanse 34-38 ram. marks of primariescomplete or nearly so; abdomen rosyred, the black dorsal band tapering pos-teriorly; secondaries rosy red along ab-dominal margin in , crimson in , thespots rarely confluent. lbkalerala.

b. Expanse 38-43 ram.; marks more or

less incomplete, usually markedly so;abdomen ocher yellow, the dorsal blackband widened and diffuse posteriorly,often covering most of the surface; see-ondaries red or ocher yellow with a

marginal band of confluent black spots.

Submit your manuscripts athttp://www.hindawi.com

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttp://www.hindawi.com Volume 2014

Anatomy Research International

PeptidesInternational Journal of


Hindawi Publishing Corporation http://www.hindawi.com

International Journal of

Volume 2014

Zoology


Molecular Biology International

GenomicsInternational Journal of


The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation http://www.hindawi.com Volume 2014


BioinformaticsAdvances in

Marine BiologyJournal of



Signal TransductionJournal of


BioMed Research International

Evolutionary BiologyInternational Journal of



Biochemistry Research International

ArchaeaHindawi Publishing Corporationhttp://www.hindawi.com Volume 2014


Genetics Research International


Advances in

Virolog y

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttp://www.hindawi.com

Nucleic AcidsJournal of

Volume 2014

Stem CellsInternational



Enzyme Research


International Journal of

Microbiology

vgrgo - downloads.hindawi.com

Documents