SYNOPTIC TABLE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF CHIONOBAS.

42 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY

SYNOPTIC TABLE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF CHIONOBAS.

By ^HARRISON

^G.

^DYAR.

Large, sexes similar,wings broadly fulvouswith only^theveins

and marginsbrown ... ...macounii Largebut the sexes dissimilar, the male with a distinct band of raised

blackishscalesacross the disk offorewings.

Fulvouscolor_bright,orange ^tinted.

Hind_wings fulvousoverallthesurface.

Basal fuscous shade of primaries scarcelycovering the sex mark; secondaries below contrastingly

strigate in whiteand brown...nevadensis Fuscous Of primaries covering ^{the sex} mark in male;

secondariesbelowmottledand with the usual median band ... ..chryxus

Hind_{wings with}thefulvous inasubmarginal band....jutta Fulvous color_pale, ochraceous...ivallda Smaller, sexessimilar, themale with noneorbut_{a slight}sexmark.

Secondariesbelowcoarsely transverselystrigose.

No

median banddefined below...uklen

A

ratherdistinctmedian bandasusual...varuna Secondariesbelowmottled, notconspicuouslystrigose.

Median band of secondaries below _defined, white edged, strigose mottled.

Upper^sidestrongly fulvous, veins contrasted

Upper^sidefulvous shaded, themalewitha faintsexmark.

Fulvous_dark,orange^tinted...

Fulvous_pale, ochraceous... dauria*

Upper^{side withoutdistinct}fulvous shade.

Generalcolor pale translucentgraybrown...

4-^

a

.

More_opaqueumber brown ... ...subhyalina Dark_{brown, slightly}fulvous...taygete Darkly^blackish... ...,perti(e

Median band_diffused,obscure orobsolete.

Gray brown^{or fulvous tinted}...ceno

In this connectionthe subject of variation

and

geographical ^dis tribution

was

discussed

by Mr. Schwarz and

^others.

Mr. Currie exhibited

two

_specimensof the dragonfly

Sympe-

Notseen.

OF WASHINGTON. 43'

trum rubicundulum

(Say), collected

by him on November

₇

on

the mainland _opposite

Plummer's

_{Island, Maryland,}

between

the canal

and

the river. Severalspecimens

were

seen, of

which

these

were

theonly

two

_captured.

They ^were

flying over,

and

inthe neighborhood of,

some

small

swampy

pools fed

by

^{a spring,}

and

one

was

observedto

go

through^themotionsof ovipositing.

This seemed

a ratherlatedatefordragonflies^tobe_flyingin thislocality.

Prof.

Smith

said he

had

found dragonflies of^this species ^after the I5th ofOctober,

and

aftera _frost, in the cranberry bogs ^of

New

_Jersey.

Mr.

Sanderson saidhe

had

alsofound this species in

Delaware

late in October,

and

Dr.

Howard

mentioned having collectedother species ^atBoise, Idaho, on the2ist

and

25th of the

same

month.

Dr.

Dyar

exhibited a lepidopterous larva,

cocoon and

_moth, concerning

which

heread the followingpaper^:

A LEPIDOPTEROUS LARVA ON A LEAF-HOPPER.

{Epipyrops barberiana

^n. sp.)

By ^{HARRISON G. DYAR.}

Mr.

E.

A. Schwarz

has

handed me

^a lepidopterous ^larva, co coon and moth, ^of

which

_species he found

two examples

^at

Las Vegas Hot

_Springs,

New

Mexico.

One

larvafellinto hisbeating- net

from

_pine

(Pinus ponder

osa],

and

the other

was

taken

by Mr.

H.

S. Barber, ^{attachedto a} leaf-hopper

which Mr. Heidemann

says ^is Issus _species, near

auroreus Uhler

of the Fulgoridae, occurring

on

the

same

tree.

Mr. Barber

states thatthe larva

was

firmly attached

on

the dorsal surface of the

abdomen

under the wings,

and

it required

some

force to

remove

it, but he did not observe any attaching

membrane. Mr. Schwarz

at first took it

to bea species ofCoccid allied to Dactylopius

from

its general appearance.

Prof. _J.

O. Westwood

haspublished(Trans. Ent. Soc., Lond., 519, 1876) an accountof a lepidopterousinsect living

on Fulgora

candelaria at

Hong Kong,

China,

from

material collected

by Mr.

_J. C.

Bowring, and

deposited ⁱⁿ the British

Museum. He named

it

Epipyrops anomala, new

_genus

and

_species,

and

_placed

it in theArctiidae.

The

larva

was

stated to be covered with a cottony coat, causing ^{it to} resemble a Coccus. Later _(Trans.

Ent. Soc.,Lond., 433, 1877), ^Prof.

Westwood

again referred ^to this insect,

and

cited instancesofan analogous, ^{if not} identical, species (not bred) observed

by

^Lieut-Col.

Godwin Austen upon

Aphana

species (Fulgoridae) ⁱⁿ the DillrangValley,

and by Mr.