Proceedings of the Club

Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, Jul 2018

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Proceedings of the Club

International Journal of mar.gin of the scale. tipped with yellow, sone distance within the Brown, of the general type of the genus. Five groups of circumgenital glands caudolaterals of 6 to 8, cephalolaterals about 20, median seven. Plates and lobes much as in P. lbarlatorioides; the two projections between the median lobes are longer than the lobes, and subparallel; the median lobes are rounded at the ends, and their sloping sides if produced to a point would form about a right angle, the subbasal notches of parlatorioides are wanting; the other lobes etc., correspond closely with those of barlalorioides. The sides of the segments before the hindmost portion are curiously produced, the outlines of the produced portions rather resembling that of a human nose. ttab. On leaves of a forest tree, Campinas, Brazil, Jan., x898. Collected by Dr. Fritz Noack, phytopathologist of the Instituto Agronomico do Estado de S. Paulo. It is a distinc.t species, easily recognized by the scale. The exuviae are sometimes quite green, and the scale may be snow white except in the centre. The scales mostly occur along the midrib on the under side of the leaf. Mytilaspis erlonga, n. sp. scale long and narrow, 3 1-2 mm. long, hardly ram. wide, convex, straight, very pale 0chreous, exuviae shining apricot color, mu.ch smaller. with a rather coppery tint, first skin exposed, second covered, c scale similar but Orange brown; median lobes fairly large but no much produced, their outline about that of a half-circle, the interval between them about as wide as the diameter of one; second lobes very broad and low; third a little more elevated than the second, and divided into two or three lobules; fourth replaced by some irregular serration of the margin, The true spines are rather small, and quite ordinary; but the spine-like glandhairs are extremely large, quite stout, ex. - PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB. x March, 898. The 2ooth meeting of the club was held at 56 Brattle St., Mr. J. W. Folsom in the chair. Mr. A. P. Morse of Welle,ley, Mass., was elected president for 898. Mr. W. F. Fiske of Durham, N. H., was elected a member. Mr. A. G. Mayer said that during a stay in the Figi Islands from November 6 to January 13, he devoted some time to collecting, insects. Among Lepidoptera one finds several species of Euploeans that seem to be identical with Australian forms. There is one Papilio that is evidently a Qeensland species, and also a Terias that is extremely common. :t is probable that all of these butterflies existed upon the islands before the advent of white men. The distribution of Anosia plexippus is peculiar. It is very common at Suva, Levuka, Loma loma, and Kadavu Isd, and in fact, seems to exist upon those islands where white men live. On many of the islands inhabited exclusively by natives it apparently does not exist. It is probable that this insect has been introduced into the group within recent years and has not yet reached .many of the remote islands. species of Asclepias was found upon some of the islands where this butterfly is common. It is probable that it has been carried by commerce from island to island, and as there is but little commerce with islands inhabited exclusively by natives the butterfly has not reached them. Among moths, a species of Utetheisa allied to out" g_f. bella was common upon the sandy atols, although it does not exist upofl the high rocky islands. A Macrosila and a hummingbird sphinx were also comlYlon. Beetles were well represented by a number of weevils, Buprestids and Carabidae. There were also a few Staphylinidae, Elateridae and Cerambycidae. A species of Cicindela was very common along the roads near Suva. Hemipterous insects ar remarkably common and are represented by many species of Corisiae. There are also several species of Cicadellina, and a C.icada. A species of Hylobates is common upon the calm waters of bays and estuaries. Orthoptera were common but seemed to be represented by but a few species. Grasshoppers of several species were found upon all of the islands. Walkingstick insects (Phasmida) were represented by several species, one of which was about twelve inches long. Others possessed wings and were smaller. The leaf insect Pkyllt’um lobiventre is common upon the leaves of the guava but it resembles the leaves so closely that it is extremely difficult to find. These insects are usually green in color and the broad flat fore wings are veined and colored so as to resemble almost,exactly the leaves over which the insect crawls. Some individuals instead of being green are brown, like a withered leaf, and others are bright yellow, or yellow streaked with brown. Their individual variability is most remarkable. These insects are said to be nocturnal in their habits and certainly the best time in which to collect them is very early in the morning, just before sunrise. Neuropte-a were rare. The insect fauna of the group is undergoing a change owing to the introduction of ma (...truncated)


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Proceedings of the Club, Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 8, DOI: 10.1155/1898/60729