NOTE ON THE LARVA OF MELANCHROIA GEOMETROIDES WALKER.

OF WASHINGTON. 77

Professor Piper ^{stated that} Dr. Fletcher reported the ^larvaeof

Therina somnlaria

as completely defoliating the oak trees in portions of

Vancouver

Island several years ago.*

NOTE ON THE LARVA OF MELANCHROIA GEOMETROIDES WALKER.

By ^HARRISON

^G.

^DYAR.

Mr. Schwarz

_brought

home from Cuba some

larvae of this speciesⁱⁿ alcohol,

and

three

moths

thathe

had

bred.

He

found

them

toward theendof

December on

acultivated _plant, Otaheite gooseberry ⁽ Cicca _disticha), at

Cayamas, Cuba. They ^had

^de

foliated the plant

and

ate large patches of the barkbesides.

Mr.

Schwarz

fed the larvae thathe bred

on

the barkas there

were no more

leavesleft.

The

three

moths

lack _entirelytheusualwhite dashes

on

the

upper

^{sidesof the} wings,

though

^one

shows

a trace of

them

below.

Gundlach,

^{in Ent.}

Cubana,

^{records an} experi ence similarto thatof

Mr. Schwarz

of the larvae eating the bark.

I^at'va. Head rounded,_full, narrowed a little above, slightly bilobed, broad; bright red,labrum _paleyellow,jaws and^{ocelli black.} Body^uni form, not elongate, equal,centralsegments about^aslong^as wide,abdom

inal feet on _joints 10 and _13, the anal pair with _{triangular plates;} all feetbright^red. Bodyblack, markedwith pale yellow; four ^{to six}trans versedorsal barson each segment, the centralones _longest, themarginal ones shorterand rounded, separatedby^asubdorsal area ofground ^color from a similar lateral series, the base ofwhich are more confused and partly confluent.

An

even, broad, ventral stripeof pale yellow,somewhat transversely barred on theannuletslike the dorsal markings. ^Tubercles obscure, concolorous, ^seta; moderate,^black.

NOTE ON THE GENUS LEUCOPHOBETRON DYAR.

By ^HARRISON

^G.

^DYAR.

I proposed ^thisgeneric term in 1897^{for the}Cochlidian _species argentijlua

Geyer and argyrorrhea

Hiibner, but gave no ^exact characters. ^I have

now

before

me two male

_specimensofargen- tiflua from

Cayamas

(E.

A. Schwarz), and

Santiago,

Cuba

(Capt.

Wirt

Robinson),

and

_give

from them

the generic charac

ters. In Ent.

Cubana,

p. 274,

Gundlach

refers to this species

*Report^of Entomologist andBotanist,from Ann. _Kept. Experimental Farms _(Canada), foryear1890, pp, 154-188.

78 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY

under the genus Euproctis, though he evidently recognized ^it

was

not a Liparid but a Cochlidian.

He

_brieflymentions the larvaas whitish green, furnished with_fleshyprolongations.

Ob

viously ^it resembles the larvae of

Alarodia and

Isochcetes as

would

be_expected.

$

antennae bipectinated ^to the _tip, the pectinations decreasing out wardly; head subprominent, palpi curved, slender, just to the frontal tuft; front trigonate,narrowed _below,smooth with theerecthairsoftuft centrally. Legslong, hairy; four_spurs. Fore wings ^{with costa}straight, veins 2 and _{3 separate,}cell with short-forked open ^discal vein, 7 from apex ^ofcell, 8 to 10stalked; hind wings with ⁶and ₇at apex^ofcell, 8 anastomosing^atbase.

Form

_largeand_robust,otherwiseas inAlarodia.

Mr.

Caudell exhibited a _living

male

_specimen of the rare cockroach

Temnopteryx

deropeltiformis Brunner.

He

reared thisroach from a larva taken lastfall at Falls

Church,

Virginia.

There

are

known

to

him

but

two

other instances of the capture ofthisspecies ^eastofIndiana a

(j> taken

by Mr. Jacob

Kotinsky

at

Washington, D.

^C.,

two

_{years ago,} and another ? taken

by Mr. Nathan Banks

at Falls

Church,

Virginia, one year ^later.

Wasmann*

records thisas a

myrmecophilous

insect, hisrecord being based on specimens^sent

him _{by Mr.}

T.

Pergande and

^col lectedunderstonesat

Cabin John

Bridge,Maryland.

Not

_{long ago}

Mr.

Caudell visited this locality with

Mr. Pergande and

^under stones in exactly similar ^situationsfound specimens

which Mr.

Pergande pronounced

^the

same

asthose sentto

Wasmann. These were nymphs

^and,

^on

maturing, proved ^tobe Ischnoptera ^uhler-

iana

Saussure.

Mr.

Caudell stated that he had no doubt that the specimens ^sent

Wasmann

are this species and not

Temnop

teryx.

The

_specimens of T. deropeltiformis

were

taken in decaying

wood, and Mr.

^Caudell said he did not believe that

Temnopteryx ^had

^{been found in ants' nests.}

He added

that there _are, in the National

Museum,

specimens ^{of this}species from Texas.

Mr.

Caudell mentioned, also, another cockroach

new

to the vicinity of

Washington

Ischnoptera intricata, recently de-

*Kritisches Verzeichniss derMyrmekophilen und Termitophilen Arth- ropoden, p. 176. Berlin, 1894.