Entomologica Americana, Volumes 3-4New York Entomological Society, 1888 - Insects |
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Page 55 - That in order to aid in acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural science...
Page 3 - Prehensorial feet smooth, sparsely pilose; sternum subcordiform, wider than long (5:3); coxae wider than long, unarmed ; tooth strong, acute ; claw large, curved. Cephalic plate subquadrangular, sides rounded, slightly diverging posteriorly ; basal plate about half as long as cephalic, twice as wide as long, anterior margin scarcely covered by cephalic plate.
Page 1 - Hutcherson for adult specimens. 15. Fontaria virginiensis (Drury). Abundant at Donaldson, common at Okolona. Specimens from Arkansas are similar to those from North Carolina, but those from northern parts of Mississippi valley represent geographical species. At Donaldson the adults were found crawling on the surface of the ground in company with a large number of their young, probably one adult to 500 or 800 young, then (July 11, 1887) about half grown.
Page 46 - Autenn;e exceeding the width of the body, clavate. First dorsal plate elliptical, angles sharp; scales arranged in five, transverse series, anterior row sharp, setigerous, all covered with fine granulations. Other dorsal plates with all the lateral sides sharply and deeply four or...
Page 3 - Fulvous, head and antennae darkest. Rather slender, very slightly attenuated anteriorly and posteriorly, smooth, very sparsely pilose and punctate. Prehensorial feet smooth, punctate, sternum wider than long (4:3.5); coxa of about equal length and width, unarmed ; claw moderately curved ; teeth almost obsolete. Cephalic plate slightly longer than wide, suboval, posterior margin truncate, sparsely punctate and pilose ; prebasal plate exposeI ; basal plate much wider than long (5:2).
Page 5 - A single specimen was taken at Donaldson. 29. Scolopocryptops sexspinosus (Say). Common at all points; these specimens are of a darker shade than northern or eastern examples. 30. Henicops fulvicornis (Meinert). A single specimen was obtained at Little Rock near the Deaf Mute Asylum. This is a European species, and the only other recorded North American locality where it is found is Mount Lebanon, New York.
Page 4 - IIl, 1820 (E. Florida); Say, Oeuvres Ent., Sp. 3, 1822; Newport, Trans. Linn. Soc., 409, 1844; Newport, Cat. Myr. Brit. Mus. Chil., 60, 1856; Wood, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., 168, 1865 ; Underwood, Ent. Amer., 65, 1887. Cryptops hyalinus Koch, Syst. d. Myr. 175, 1847; Gervais, Apteres, IV, 293, 1874. ? Cryptops milberti Gervais, Apteres, IV, 592, 1847 (New Jersey). ? Cryptops milbertii Wood, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., 168, 1865; Underwood, Ent.
Page 3 - Dorsal plates moderately smooth ; anterior and posterior prercuta moderate, median larger. Spiracles round, moderately large. Ventral plates with a distinct median sulcus ; pores on posterior part. First pair of legs moderately short, anterior and posterior subequal. Posterior coxae strongly inflated, pores large and small, about twelve. Anal legs of the female slender, claw large. Pairs of legs of female 43. Length of female 37 mm.