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For example, among small, ground-living but non-fossorial Carabidae, the great genus Tachys is dominant in the tropics but diminishes north- ward and southward; and it is largely replaced in the north-temperate zone and to some extent in some south- temperate areas by another great, related genus, Bembi- dion, which is very poorly represented in the tropics (cf. Darlington, Coleopterists’ Bulletin Vol. 7, No. 2, 1953, pp. 12-16). Two other tribes of larger Carabidae which have some- what complementary distributions are the Pterostichini and Agonini. These tribes are only partly and very com- plexly complementary. Both are in fact cosmopolitan, but unevenly so. In some places, they occur in nearly equal numbers; in other places, Pterostichini are overwhelmingly dominant; and in others, Agonini are so. These tribes tend to be complementary within the Aus- tralian region. In Australia itself and Tasmania Ptero- stichini are dominant, with more than 350 known species against only about 20 species of Agonini in the same area. But in New Guinea Agonini are dominant, with 107 known full species and 14 additional geographical. subspecies 1Published with a grant from the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. zs 2 Psyche [Sheree (Darlington, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Vol. 107, No. 3, 1952, pp. 89-252, pls.) against only about 20-odd species of Pterostichini (in material assembled for study but not yet formally studied). One reason for the number of Agonini in New Guinea is that species of this tribe have multiplied on the moun- tains there, in forest at middle and high altitudes. Some of them occur even in the high grasslands above the forest line, at 11,000 feet or higher, where the climate is colder than it is in much of Australia. In Australia, how- ever, Pterostichini, not Agonini, have multiplied on the mountains. Why this should be so is not immediately apparent. The Australian mountains are lower, but this does not account for the difference. On the Atherton Tableland and elsewhere in tropical Queensland in north- eastern Australia, at altitudes of 2,000 or 3,000 feet, are big tracts of full-scale rainforest (called “‘scrub” in Aus- tralia) entirely comparable to the rainforests of New Guinea and containing some of the same species of trees. This kind of forest in New Guinea is inhabited by many Agonini and few Pterostichini; but in Australia, by few Agonini and many Pterostichini, most of the latter belong- ing to Australian genera which do not reach New Guinea at all. I have collected extensively in both the Australian and New Guinean rainforests, and I can testify from my own experience that the pterostichine-agonine faunas of the two places are unexpectedly and profoundly different —in spite of the fact that they share some identical species! This difference can hardly be accounted for in simple ecological terms but is probably due to a complex combina- tion of ecological, historical, and geographical factors. Over the world as a whole, there is a tendency for Agonini to be better represented in the tropics; Pterostichini, in the temperate zones; although this zonal complementarity is not strongly defined. Also it is probable that the Agonini are more recent in origin than the Pterostichini and that they have dispersed more recently, although the dispersal of each group has been very complex, and although even the Agonini dispersed long enough ago to have reached all 1956] Darlington — Australian Carabidae as parts of the world and to have differentiated to some extent in different regions. I base this guess, of the more recent rise and dispersal of Agonini, chiefly on the lesser diversity of this tribe as compared with the Pterostichini. If all this is correct, it may be guessed that Pterostichini are dominant in Australia partly because Australia is more temperate than tropical in climate, and partly be- cause the Pterostichini reached Australia before Agonini did; and it may be guessed that Agonini are dominant in New Guinea partly because the climate there is fully tropical, and partly because the carabid fauna of New Guinea is more recent in its origins than that of Australia. Add to this that the mountain carabid faunas of Aus- tralia and New Guinea have been derived independently, each from the lowland fauna adjacent to it, and not by dispersal along a connecting mountain chain, and we have an adequate and probably correct explanation of the un- expected difference in composition of the carabid faunas in the mountain rainforests of Australia and New Guinea. Whether or not this explanation is correct, the situa- tion among Carabidae suggests that, although Australia and New Guinea were connected by land at times in the Pleistocene (perhaps as recently as ten thousand years ago) and although some species crossed the connection, rainforest and mountain habitats were not fully con- tinuous and whole faunas were not exchanged. Sloane (Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W., Vol. 35, 1910, pp. 453-458) revised the Australian Agonini (“‘Sphodrini’’) known to him, recognizing 4 genera and 10 species not including Homothes, which he transferred to this tribe (“Anchomenini’”’) in 1920 (Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W., Vol. 45, p. 164). However, some of his generic assignments, although correct according to the usage of his time, are now known to be wrong and misleading. I therefore offer the following new key to the Australian genera of Agonini (Sphodrini, Anchomenini). This key is still preliminary in some ways, but it puts the Australian forms in line with the New Guinean ones and disposes of the most mis- leading assignments. The following key applies only to Australian species of 4 Psyche [March the genera in question. In the case of genera represented in Australia by single species, the species are character- ized and named in the key. A comparable key to New Guinean Agonini is given in my paper cited above, pages 114-116. nS oo KX © Preliminary key to Australian genera of Agonini Tarsi sparsely pubescent above; tarsal claws serrate on inner edge in basal half; (relatively large, c. 13-15 mm., dull black; introduced) .... Laemostenus com- planatus Dej. Tarsi not pubescent above; claws not serrate .... 2 Tarsal claws each with an acute tooth on inner edge at base; (winged, brown, rather slender, prothorax suboval)ia.. eee Dicranoncus queenslandicus (Sl.) Tansale claws not stoobtimed. yes sas 3 Wings full and all normal setae of head and pronotum PYCSENU 205, 2 oR a ee ee ee A Wings vestigial and/or one or more pairs of supraocu- lar or lateral prothoracic setae absent .......... qT Sole of hind tarsus with a single, regular row of bristles on each side, with middle of sole bare; (slightly aeneous, Agonum-like) ...... Lorostemma cooki (SI.) Bristles of hind-tarsal sole not as above ........ 5 Brown, bronzed, or black; last hind-tarsal segment without accessory setae at sides below; elytra (in Australian species) not spined .......... Notagonum Purple (or blue), at least on elytra ............ 6 Last hind-tarsal segment with accessory setae; elytra not spined; (prothorax narrow; elytra wide, purple) ae ie er a er Colpodes porphyriacus (Sl.) Last hind-tarsal segment without accessory setae; elytra spined at apex about opposite second intervals; (prothorax rather wide; color purple or bluish-purple) AON te Winae 2k 8 Violagonum (n. gen.) violaceum (Chd.) Wings full; humeri normal; (depressed; dull brown or black, often margined or finely speckled with pale) ee Rr ee ee ME OM i ein pe aA eee Homothes Wings vestigial; humeri dentate; (convex; shining black) (25.3 Odontagonum (n. gen.) nigrum Nn. sp. 1956] Darlington — Australian Carabidae ) list of genera Laemostenus (or Laemosthenes) is a Palearctic genus. L. complanatus Dej. is native to the sub-desert regions of North Africa. It has been introduced around the Mediter- ranean, on several Atlantic islands, in western North America, southern South America, and parts of Australia and Tasmania, etc. Dicranoncus is a mainly Oriental genus. D. queens- landicus (Sl.) extends from India and the Philippines to North Queensland. In the Philippines (on Luzon) I found it living in clumps of tall grass in open country. Lorostemma is an Oriental-Australian genus. L. cooki (Sl.) occurs from North Queensland south at least to Brisbane, where I took a series in flood debris in Oct.- Nov., 1948. It resembles L. informalis Darl. of New Guinea, but has a smaller prothorax with narrower mar- gins. I have not made a more detailed comparison. Notagonum is a genus of convenience, proposed for a number of relatively unspecialized New Guinean species which resemble the northern Agonuwm but do not really belong to it. I tentatively assign to Notagonum about 8 Australian species. Most of them have heretofore been listed as Agonum, Platynus, Anchomenus, or Europhilus, but these genera are all primarily northern and do not occur in the Australian Region. I shall not discuss these species in detail, except (below) to record one of them from Australia for the first time and to describe another as new. Colpodes, as used here, is another genus of convenience not sharply separable from Notagonum, but containing usually more specialized, larger, often more brightly colored, often arboreal rather than terrestrial species. The only Australian species here assigned to Colpodes is porphyriacus (Sl.), which is known to me only by descrip- tion. Of two other ‘‘Colpodes” listed by Sloane (1910), one (laferter Mont.) is here tentatively assigned to Notagonum, and the other (violaceus Chd.) is placed in a new genus (below). 6 Psyche stoner Violagonum is a new, monotypic genus proposed for Colpodes violaceus Chd. of New Guinea ete. and North Queensland. Homothes is a primarily Australian genus, with half a dozen or more species in Australia and Tasmania. The genus is now known to have an endemic species also in Java and Luzon (Louwerens, in Treubia, Vol. 21, 1952, 10. AlS217)) . [Aeolodermus emarginatus (Chd.), related to Homothes and described as from Victoria, is probably not Australian. It occurs from the Malay Peninsula to Celebes and the Philippines. | Odontagonum is a new, monotypic genus based on a new species from North Queensland. This list of genera shows that the native Agonini of Australia, heretofore thought to include geographically isolated representatives of several north-temperate genera, actually consist of the following: Two chiefly Oriental genera which extend to north- eastern Australia: Dicranoncus is represented in Aus- tralia by a widely distributed Indo-Australian species; Lorostemma, by a slightly defined endemic species. One mainly New Guinean genus and species, Vio- lagonum violaceum, which extends to North Queensland without differentiation. Two tentative genera of convenience, Notagonum and Colpodes, with about 9, mostly relatively unspecialized Australian species. One of these species, Notagonum dentellum, is mainly New Guinean; 1, Notagonum lafer- tei, shared with New Caledonia; and 1, Notagonum sub- metallicum, shared with New Zealand. One genus, Homothes, which is chiefly Australian but represented in Java etc. by an endemic species. And one probably autochthonous (but not necessarily very old), flightless genus and species, Odontagonum nigrum, confined to North Queensland. The general nature of this fauna is consistent with the Agonini being relatively recent in Australia, and having accumulated there by successive arrivals from (or ex- changes with) the Orient and New Guinea. 1956 ] Darlington — Australian Carabidae i New records and descriptions Notagonum dentellum Darl. Darlington 1952, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Vol. 107, 147. This species, which is widely distributed in New Guinea, occurs also in North Queensland. I took two specimens of it at Millaa Millaa, on the Atherton Tableland, in April, QRZ. Notagonum nigrellum n. sp. With characters of genus as defined in my paper on New Guinean Agonini, pages 127-129. Form of rather slender Agonum; black, appendages dark, margins of prothorax and elytra not pale; upper surface moderately shining, not iridescent, not punctate; microsculpture iso- diametric on head, slightly transverse on pronotum and elytra. Head .77 and .77 (in ¢ @ measured) width prothorax; eyes large, moderately prominent; posterior supraocular setae about between posterior edges of eyes. Prothorax: width/length 1.29 and 1.29 (in ¢@ meas- ured); base/apex 1.32 and 1.25; sides rather broadly arcuate, sometimes subangulate at anterior marginal setae, converging and nearly straight or slightly sinuate before posterior angles; latter obtuse, usually slightly blunted; lateral margins rather narrow; basal foveae rather shal- low, not or vaguely punctuate; anterior marginal line entire or nearly so, posterior one vague at middle. EHlytra moderately wide; humeri rounded, sides behind humeri nearly straight and slightly diverging, then increasingly arcuate to moderate subapical sinuations; apices rounded or slightly denticulate (variable) at sutural angles; striae well impressed, not or faintly punctulate; intervals mod- erately convex, outer ones not much modified toward apex, srd with 3 normally placed punctures. Lower surface virtually impunctate; abdomen not pubescent. Fourth hind- tarsal segment rather deeply emarginate but not strongly lobed. Length, about 8-9; width, 2.9-3.4 mm. Holotype ¢ (M. C. Z. Type No. 29,461) and 22 para- types all from Mt. Kosciusco, 5,000-7,000 ft. altitude, Dec. 1931, taken by myself probably (if my memory is correct) beside brooks. 8 Psyche [March This new species is probably related to Notagonwm (“Anchomenus’’) marginellus (Er.), but differs from it and from other related species in being entirely black and in having narrower prothoracic margins. Violagonum n. gen. Broad Agonum-like in form; color (in single known species) purple or purplish-blue. Head rather short (not elongate as in Colpodes) ; mentum toothed; mouth parts and antennae normal; both pairs supraocular setae pres- ent. Prothorax rather wide, with usual 2 pairs laterai pronotal setae. Elytra each with a spine at apex about opposite 2nd interval; striae normal; intervals normal except 9th narrowed apically (above subapical sinua- tions) ; 3rd normally 3-punctate. Inner wings full. Legs and tarsi normally agonine; tibiae not sulcate on outer edges; hind tarsi suleate on each side above, with setae not forming single regular rows on each side below; 4th hind-tarsal segment lobed, outer lobe much longer than inner; 5th hind-tarsal segment without obvious accessory setae; claws simple. External sexual characters normal for tribe. Genotype: Colpodes violaceus Chd. Although the species for which this new genus is pro- posed was, as a matter of convenience, left in Co!’podes in my paper on New Guinean Agonini, it is not a true Colpodes. The short head particularly distinguishes it. The position of the elytral spines distinguishes it from the few species of Notagonwm that have spines: in Notagonum, the spines (when present) are about op- posite the ends of the 3rd elytral intervals. The lobes of the 4th hind-tarsal segment are longer than in most Notagonum. And the general form and color of Violagonum are distinctive, though not themselves of generic value. Odontagonum n. gen. Genus proposed for one medium-sized, flightless, convex Agonum-like species with two characters which, so far as I know, are unique among Agonini: antennae pube- scent from the middle of the 3rd (not 4th) segments, and humeri toothed. Since the genus is based on one species, other generic and specific characters are all combined in 1956 | Darlington — Australian Carabidae 9 the following specific description. Genotype: Odontagonum nigrum n. sp., below. Odontagonum nigrum n. sp. Form of a broad, very convex Agonum; black, mod- erately shining, not iridescent, legs brownish black, anten- nae and mouth parts brown; upper surface impunctate except for fixed setigerous punctures; microsculpture light but normal, approximately isodiametric on head, trans- verse on pronotum, more transverse and oblique on elytral disk. Head rather elongate, only .57 and .59 width pro- thorax (in é¢@ measured); eyes much less prominent than in typical Agonum but not much reduced otherwise; genae rather short, oblique, slightly arcuate; anterior supraocular setae absent, posterior ones present, about between posterior edges of eyes; antennae rather short (in tribe), normal except pubescent from middle of 3rd (not 4th) segments; mandibles, maxillae, and maxillary palpi all longer and more slender than usual in tribe; labial palpi shorter and stouter; mentum with triangular tooth; neck constriction weak; frontal sulci rather deep, linear, curved; clypeal suture distinct. Prothorax rather large, more narrowed in front than behind; width/length 1.18 and 1.11 (in ¢ © measured) ; base/apex 1.3-++; sides arcuate (not strongly) for most of length, less so or straight toward base; basal angles rather narrowly rounded; anterior angles slightly produced, rather nar- rowly rounded; lateral margins wide posteriorly, nar- rowed anteriorly, rather strongly reflexed, each with seta about 1/3 from apex but none at base; disk convex; basal foveae moderate, not sharply defined, not punctate; middle line well impressed from extreme base nearly to apex; transverse impressions less defined; base not or vaguely margined; apical marginal line distinct at sides, vague at middle. Elytra 1.32 and 1.31 width prothorax (in ¢ 9 measured), convex; basal margin strong and entire; humeri dentate; sides arcuate (only slightly so at middle), with moderate subapical sinuations; apices bluntly sub- acute but not produced; lateral margins rather wide, forming slightly convex 10th intervals; sutural striae absent; other striae entire, deep, impunctate; intervals 10 Psyche [Akesecn convex, 7th subcostate in about anterior 1/2 of length, outer ones not much modified toward apex, 3rd with 1 setigerous puncture, near middle of length. Inner wings evidently vestigial; metepisterna scarcely longer than wide. Lower surface impunctate; abdomen not pubescent. Tibiae not sulecate on outer edges; hind tarsi slender, not dis- tinctly grooved above; 4th hind-tarsal segment simply emarginate; 5th segment with 2 or 3 accessory setae each side below. External sexual characters normal; 4 front tarsi more widely dilated than usual in tribe. Length about 11.0-11.5; width about 4.0-4.3 mm. Holotype (M. C. Z. Type No. 29,462) ¢ from Millaa Millaa, Atherton Tableland, North Queensland, 2,500 ft. altitude. Two (46 2) paratypes from Lake Barrine, Ather- ton Tableland, 2,300 ft. All specimens taken by myself in “scrub” (rainforest), in April, 1932. SYMBRENTHIA SILANA DE NICEVILLE, A GOOD SPECIES (LEPIDOPTERA: NYMPHALIDAE) By NICHOLAS W. GILLHAM Biological Laboratories, Harvard University While revising the Nymphalid tribe Vanessini I have had occasion to make a number of genitalic preparations from males and females of most of the species belonging to the genus Symbrenthia'. A study of these preparations has revealed that Symbrenthia silana de Niceville is a distinct species, and not a subspecies of Symbrenthia nip- handa Moore as Fruhstorfer? maintains. The males of both species have very distinct genitalia and can also be told apart by several minute differences in the external facies. Females of stlana were no available for study in the material at hand so the following diagnosis is ap- plicable to the males of the two species only. Symbrenthia niphanda Moore Figs. 1-Z Symbrenthia niphanda Moore, 1872. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1872:559. Type locality: Sikkim, India, de- scribed from a 6 anda Q. External facies. 1. Eyespot between M, and M3; on underside of hindwing only slightly elongate as compared with those on either side of it. 2. Marginal green lunules on underside of hindwing crescentic in shape with an orange spot separating them from the blue marginal spot at the outer angle. 3. Forewing below bearing five or six black spots between Cus and 2dA. Male genitalia (Figs. 1 & 2). 1. Aedeagus short and thick. 2. Saccus very short and narrow. 3. Valve bear- "Most of the material examined is in the collection of the U.S. Na- tional Museum and is under the care of Mr. William D. Field, who was kind enough to let me make full use of it. ?Fruhstorfer, H. 1912. In Seitz, The Macrolepidoptera of the World, 9 :533. 1] 12 Psyche [March ing a single caudal prong. 4. Uncus flanked by two well developed prongs. Distribution. This species is recorded from Sikkim and Bhutan by Fruhstorfer, loc. cit., and I have seen a male from Assam (U.S. National Museum Collection). Symbrentia silana de Niceville Figs. 3-4 Symbrenthia silana de Niceville, 1885. J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 54:117. Type locality: Buxa, Bhutan, and Sik- kim, India, described from a male and female. External facies. 1. Eyespot between M, and Ms; on underside of hindwing very elongate as compared with those on either side of it. 2. Marginal green lunules on underside of hindwing chevron shaped and continuous with the marginal spot at the outer angle. 3. Forewing below bearing three or four black spots between Cus and 2dA. Male genitalia (Figs. 3 & 4). 1. Aedeagus long and i Fig. 1. Male genitalia of Symbrenthia niphanda Moore with the aedeagus and left valve removed. The locality from which this speci- men came is unknown. Fig. 2. Aedeagus of the genitalia in Fig. 1. Fig. 3. Male genitalia of Symbrenthia silana de Niceville with the aedeagus and left valve removed. This specimen was collected at Sivoke, Sikkim. Fig. 4. Aedeagus of the genitalia in Fig. 3. All views are of the lateral aspect at 45x. Both specimens are in the collection of the U.S. National Museum. wes] Gulham — Symbrenthia silana 13 tapering. 2. Saccus moderately long and thick. 3. Valve bearing a caudal and a darsal prong. 4. Uncus flanked by two poorly developed prongs. Distribution. This species is only known from Sikkim and Bhutan. DROSOPHILID AND CHLOROPID FLIES BRED FROM SKUNK CABBAGE. — During May and June, 1956, I collected a great many rotting spathes of skunk cabbage, Symplo- carpus foetidus L. (Nutt.) from a shady red maple swamp in Lexington, Massachusetts. These were placed in a cloth-covered jar, and from 10-20 days later, a succession of small Diptera emerged. The first flies were small psychodids, still undetermined. Two days later, several Drosophila qunaria Loew adults appeared, plus a single small damaged Drosophila, possibly D. transversa or near. Following the first drosophilids by 2-3 days were numerous chloropid adults: about 100 Elachiptera costata (Loew) and 2 each of EF. nigriceps (Loew) and EL. erythropleura Sabrosky, as well as two specimens of Tricimba lineella (Fall.). Drosophila was also reared later from rotting skunk cabbage leaf petioles that were macerated and left exposed for a week in the same swamp during June; the emergents were all or nearly all D. quinaria, and this species was also collected resting on skunk cabbage leaves at the same locality. D. quinaria does not come to baits of watermelon and other rotting fruits placed in the swamp, though numerous other Drosophila and Chymomyza were attracted in this way. I owe the determinations to Dr. Curtis W. Sabrosky, Dr. A. H. Sturtevant, and Dr. Marshall R. Wheeler. — W. L. BROWN, JR., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. THE GENUS MESENTOTOMA (COLLEMBOLA: ENTOMOBRYIDAE) By KENNETH A. CHRISTIANSEN Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa In 1942 Salmon described a new genus and species of littoral Collembola under the name of Mesentotoma exalga. As he pointed out, these animals had a number of peculiar characteristics, not the least of which was the littoral habitat. Two species previously described as members of the genus Entomobrya also display many of these peculiar characteristics, including the littoral habitat. These are E.. laguna Bacon and LE. dollfust Denis, and both are clearly separated from the remainder of the members of Entomobrya. Of the three species mentioned above, dollfusi is most similar to the members of the genus Hntomobrya, and laguna is least so. In text-figure one below, it can be seen that the three species give the appearance of steps in a linear series of species, becoming more differen- tiated from the typical Entomobrya body structure. The differences between dollfust and the typical Entomobrya species is so great that it is difficult to tell to what group of the genus it is allied. The most likely candidate ap- pears to be the EH. marginata group, and if we accept this hypothesis, then the idea of a linear relationship among the species is considerably reinforced by the struc- ture of the male genital plate and the empodial appendage. While the basal position of dollfusi is fairly clear, some specializations of exalga would tend to indicate that it is not directly ancestral to laguna, although much less dif- ferentiated from the members of the genus Entomobrya. In the remainder of this paper the genus is redefined, and the three species belonging to it are described and figured. Although the unusual habitat makes this animal difficult to find, eventually more species will probably be turned 14 1956] Christiansen — Mesentotoma 15 up, and these may serve to fill out some of the blank spots in the phylogeny of the group. Genus Mesentotoma Salmon Mesentotoma Salmon, 1942. Records of Dominion Museum, 18 BYS.'559). Body form oval to elliptical, circular in cross section. Antennae. Lengths of segments variable, commonly 1-2. 5-2.5-3. Second segment with a more or less definite indication of basal subsegmentation. Apical bulb of fourth antennal segment present or lacking. Head oval, only slightly longer than broad. Labral papillae lacking setae. Labial appendage with a well developed differentiated external seta. Legs with all setae ciliate except for normal apical internal smooth setae on third pair of legs. Tenent hair clavate or acuminate. Empodial appendage quadrilam- melate, widened for basal one-half to one-third of length and sharply acuminate for apical remainder. Internal distal edge often excavate. Unguis with from two to four internal teeth. The basal pair enlarged, often basally joined. Internal teeth large, basal in position and usually heavily reinforced. External teeth small or wanting. Mucro lacking basal spine, with small anteapical and large apical teeth. Mesentotoma exalga Salmon Figs. 8-10 Mesentotoma exalga Salmon, 1942. Records of Dominion Museum, 1: 58,59. Color and pattern. Background color yellow, pigment blue as follows: all of antennal segments two, three, and four; basal and apical rings on antennal segment one, plus ventral surface of this segment; ring around each antennal base and a connecting band. Small irregular spots over surface of head and a V-shaped mark in mid- region. Thoracic segment three through abdominal seg: ment three largely blue except for scattered small pale spots and pale regions along the posterior edges of dorsum of abdominal segments one and two. Anterior and posterior margins of abdominal segment four with large oval dark areas. Anterior margin of fifth and all of sixth segment dark. Distal part of legs slightly darkened, remainder 16 Psyche March of body pale. Head. Labial appendage with external dif- ferentiated seta slender, acuminate, reaching only two- thirds of the distance from base of seta to apex of same papilla. Labral papillae rounded. Fourth segment with apical pit, but no retractile bulb. Legs. Smooth setae on third pair of legs slightly curved. Tenent hair with clavate tip very flat and thin. Unguis with three or four internal teeth, basal pair large, remainder small to minute. Lateral teeth very large, basal in position and reinforced by heavy ridges. Empodial appendage triangular, strongly o == G So — ” mo Cc oS = = 3 c a S oO rc) ro) o & - DO = : = = = WwW Labral ~\~— A haey. Yanan aX aval aun IY Apex of = Ain Ce | antenna ae, ; antennal length 3.25, 5 BH : length of pterothorax 2.76, 2.95, 3.04, 3.2; length of third abdominal tergite ¢ 5.9, 5.9. Holotype ¢ and allotype ¢: Baker, San Bernardino Co., Calif., Aug. 23, 1952 (UCLA). Type deposited in the Cali- fornia Academy of Sciences, allotype in the UCLA Col- lection. Paratypes: Yermo, San Bernardino Co., Calif., 10-4-49, 1 6 1 ¢,J. M. Stern (Adams Collection). This is a pale yellow species, somewhat resembling #. pallidus in color. The elongate labial palpi immediately dis- tinguish it from all other species of Hesperoleon save longipalpis (Hagen).° In longipalpis, the vertex marks are well pigmented, even in pale specimens; the antennal band on pale specimens consists of a spot under, and one lateral to, each antennal base. The ventral spots become confluent medially on darker specimens. In deflexus, the antennal band does not extend below the antennal bases, and the lateral spot is weak, connected to the antennal band above. In longipalpis, the male has short ectoprocts, long in de- flexus. The internal genitalia are similar, longipalpis hav- ing somewhat longer and sharper paramere hooks. Hesperoleon minutus, new species Figures 6, 13-16 Face pale, interantennal band straight-margined above, below emarginate, often with median extension toward cly- peus. First vertex row a short band each side, and median wide cordate mark. Behind is a pair of submedian dots, then a pair of lateral dots on each side; posteriorly a tri- angular dark mark. Labial palpi about 1.5 times the length 5Hesperoleon longipalpis (Hagen) 1888 nov. comb. Banks made this species the type of his genus Scotoleon; it is merely a Hesperoleon with long labial palpi. 1956] Adams — Myrmeleontidae 101 of fore tarsus, the terminal segment dark, strongly swollen; maxillary palpi pale; scape pale, dark below; pedicel in- fuscated dorsally; flagellar segments dark with wide apical pale bands. Median pronotal stripes united behind furrow; before furrow divergent, usually separated by pale. Lateral stripes well separated from medians, narrow, anterior ends curv- ed mesad. Marginal stripes absent. Mesoscutellum with two stripes, narrow anteriorly, well separated. Metascutellar stripes fused for about 14 their length. Fore coxae pale with basal and apical dark areas on lateral surface. Mid and hind coxae dark basally, grading to pale apically. Femora dotted with dark, the dots often confluent, particularly on posterior side of fore femur, anterior side of mid femur, and on hind femur; tibiae with dark subbasal (faint on hind leg), preapical (absent on hind leg), and apical bands; fore and mid tibiae dotted with dark. Tarsomeres pale with apical dark bands, third and fourth often wholly dark. Abdomen ( ¢ ): dark, second tergite with basal and apical pale spots; third, fourth, and fifth with a pale band each side, wider at base, middle, and apex of segments; sixth, seventh, and eighth tergites with pale basal, intermediate, and apical pale spots each side. Ectoprocts short, conical, divergent. Posterior margin of ninth sternite with tooth- like projection. Gonarcus and parameres (Figures 15, 16): mediuncus long; inner margin of parameres curves out- ward at hinge to form a high, thin strut, bracing hook. (¢@): dark, second tergite pale basally and apically, third to seventh tergites with pale basal, intermediate, and apical spots each side, third and fourth sternites pale apically. Setae on legs mostly white, on thorax white, on abdomen short, white, a few dark on apical segments. Hind spurs as long as 1 14 tarsomeres. Wings: venation pale, interrupted with dark at inter- sections of cross veins; most cross veins dark. Dark marks at base of stigma, both ends of hypostigmatic cell, along CuA, in a line from rhegma toward tip of wing, and at end of CuAs,. On hind wing a dark spot at base of stigma, other- wise unmarked. 102 Psyche [Scptember In fore wing 3 presectoral cross veins (rarely 2), 6-9 branches of Rs+MA, CuF at or before origin of RS+MA; 8-10 cubital cross veins, not anastomosed; 8 or 9 anal vein- lets, not anastomosed. Hind wing; 1-3, usually 2, presac- torals, 5-8 branches of Rs+MA, CuF before origin of Rs-+ MA. Measurements (means, in mm.): body length ¢ 17.6, 2 16.7; abdomen ¢ 13.7, ¢ 12.0; fore wing, length ¢ 18.5, © 1k, walla 6 BH, @ ABs joierolnorax 6 23, @ Ze wowed ANKCOTUIOe era A S.A, 2 B.A? amemmae 6 35, @ Bie third segment, labial palpi, length ¢ 0.68, ¢ 0.83, width & Qsl9, @ Ozh. California: Riverside Co.: Cathedral City, VII-24-50, é, L. W. Isaak (UCD) (holotype, deposited in the Cali- fornia Academy of Sciences), VII-21-52, ¢, B. W. Tinglof (UCLA); Indian Wells, VI-17-52, ¢, VII-11-52, 9 (UCLA); Blythe, 17 mi. NW, VII-26-46, P. D. Hurd and W. F. Barr (CIS); Palm Springs, VIII-8-56, ¢, L. A. Stange (Stange Coll.). Imperial Co.: Fort Yuma, 6-15-48, é, 6-13-48, ¢, W. B. Andahl (MCZ), June 1948, 9, R. Coleman (CIS). Arizona: Yuma Co.: Welton, VI-28-50, 2 ¢, 1 9, R. F. Smith (AMNH). Baja California: San Felipe, VI-18-39, Michelbacher and Ross (CAS). EXPLANATION OF PLATE 6 Figures 33-46. Fig. 33. Hesperoleon fidelitas, holotype, gonarcus and parameres, posterior view. Fig. 34. Same, lateral view. Fig. 35. H. minus- culus. gonarcus and parameres, posterior view (Whitewater, Riverside Co., Calif.). Fig. 36. H. niger, gonarcus and parameres, posterior view (3 mi. N. of Payson, Gila €o., Aviz.). Pig. 37. Same, lateral view. Mig: 38. H. minusculus, gonarcus and parameres, lateral view. Fig. 39. H. mfuscatus, gonarcus and parameres, posterior view (Antioch, Calif.). Fig. 40. Same, side view. Fig. 41. H. deflexus, allotype, head. Fig. 42. H, texanus, gonarcus and parameres, posterior view (sac inverted). (Mill Creek, San Bernardino Mts.. Calif., 6000 ft.). Fig. 43. Same, lateral view. Fig. 44. H. infuscatus, apex of abdomen, laterial view (Cajon Pass, San Bernardino Co., Calif.). Fig. 45. Same, ventral view. Fig. 46. Scale for gonarcus and parameres only. Vou. 63, PLATE 6 PsycHeE, 1956 NTIDAE ADAMS — MyRMELEO 104 Psyche [September A little smaller than H. apache Banks, and not closely resembling any other species of Hesperoleon. Hesperoleon infuscatus, new species Figures 4, 39, 40, 44, 45 Face pale, antennal band straight-margined below, with a thin line extending toward clypeus. First vertex row far forward, a strongly curved band, separated medially from antennal band by a pale spot; in most specimens the ends fused with antennal band. Second vertex row often connect- ed medially with first, consists of an irregular, medially thickened band each side, often connected. Labial palpi slender, the apical segment slender, pointed, shiny-fuscous; maxillary palpi dark. Scape dark below, pale above; pedicel dark, flagellum dark, last ten (more or less) segments with broad apical pale bands on ventral side. Pronotum distinct- ly broader than length at center, submedian stripes fairly straight; laterals very wide behind furrow, narrowly sepa- rated from medians by pale, before furrow narrow and curving to fuse with medians at anterior margin. Space between bands suffused with fuscous at, and sometimes behind, furrow. Submarginal stripe a thin line curving back from furrow, often absent. Mesoscutellum with two long, well-separated dark stripes, metascutellar stripes fused for about two-thirds their length. Coxae pale medially, dark laterally; fore femur dark-striped posteriodorsally, mid and hind femora wholly dark but for ventral pale stripe. Fore tibia infuscated posteriorly, with dark subbasal and apical bands; mid tibia with dark basal, subbasal, preapical, and apical bands; hind tibia with subbasal and apical bands, and a thin ventral dark line. Tarsal segments pale, dark- banded apically, segments three and four more so than others. Abdomen (¢): dark, with dorsal pale stripe each side extending to sixth segment. Ectoprocts long: (about 1 % times as long as 8th abdominal tergite, which is short, 1.3 times as long as high) extend straight back, viewed from side; from above, bent into lyriform curve. Mediuncus arms spread widely; parameres form a flat plate from the lateral margins of which the hooks emerge and bend 1956] Adams — Myrmeleontidae 105 straight back. (¢): the pale stripes thinner, may extend to tip of abdomen, or be absent. Setae on legs mostly black (some white on coxae) ; on thorax mostly white, stiff, short; on abdomen mostly white, short, male with many long black setae on apical segments. Hind spurs as long as 1 14 tarsal segments. Wings: venation of fore and hind wings mostly dark, the longitudinal and some cross veins interrupted with pale; membrane narrowly brown-fuscous bordering dark veins; dark spots at inner side of stigma, along R at intersections of cross veins, along CuA, at rhegma, in apical field, and at end of CuA.. Hind wing similarly marked, but not so heavily. Fore wing: 3 presectoral cross veins (rarely 4 or 5), usually the outer one connected to first cross vein beyond origin of Rs+MA; Rs+MA 8-11 branched; 11-15 basal cubital cross veins, 3-10 (usually 5 or 6) connected; 9-12 (usually 10 or 11) anal veinlets. Hind wing: 2 or 3 pre- sectorals; Rs+MA 8-11 (usually 9 or 10) branched; 5-7 inner cubital veinlets. Measurements (means, in mm.): body length ¢ 35.8, 2 26.7; abdomen ¢ 29.5, ° 20.2; fore wing 6 25.4, 9 26.9, width ¢ 6.3, @ 6.9; antennae ¢ 7.0, @ 5.7; third segment, labial palpus, ¢ 0.77, ¢ 0.85, width ¢ 0.17, ¢@ 0.21; pro- notum, length at center, ¢ 1.12, @ 1.19, width ¢ 1.81, ¢ 1.81; pterothorax ¢ 4.0, 9 4.4; third abdominal tergite 6 6.5, 9 6.2. California: Contra Costa Co.: Antioch, V-24-49, 2 ¢ (one the holotype), 1 @ (allotype), J. W. Mac Swain COAS) WE24-49°0 4 Po Dy Hurd (CIS), Vi-4-42, 19. 2) 9, E. C. Van Dyke (CAS); VI-20-37, ¢, E.'S. Ross (CAS) ; V-27-50, °, S. F. Bailey and R. M. Bohart (UCD); VI-8- 39, 4 ¢, R. M. Bohart (CIS); VI-2-40, ¢, B. Brockman (CIS) ; V-20-33, ¢@, E. O. Essig (CIS). San Bernardino Co.: Cajon Pass, VI-16-46, 3 ¢, 38 9, E. G. Linsley (CIS). This species has a dark brown facies, similar to that of H. curriet Banks, from which it may be distinguished by the short 8th abdominal segment in the male, which is 106 Psyche [September longer than the ectoprocts in curriei, by the parameres, which are not formed as hooks, like those of cwrriei, and by the evenly infuscated femora — dotted in curriei. It is much more robust than brunneus, the ectoprocts of which have a preapical lobe on the median side, and the femora of which are dotted. Tyttholeon, new genus Figures 7, 8, 11, 12 Belongs to the Brachynemurini. Labial palpi short, apical segment not swollen; antennae stout, strongly clavate. Legs fairly stout, tibial spurs ab- sent, first tarsal segment two-thirds length of next three together. Abdomen much shorter than wings, of same length in male as in female. Many long white setae present on femora, coxae, and thorax (except metanotum). Fore wing: costal area narrow, the cells more than twice as long as high; Rs+MA originates only slightly proximal to cubital fork; cubital fork acute. A, straight, connected to CuA, by one or two cross veins; A» unbranched; A; fork- ed near margin. Banksian lines absent. Hind wing: costal area narrow; only one row of cross veins between cubital veinlets; CuAs, reaches margin before CuF; at most one cross vein between CuA, and CuA, beyond fork. Banksian lines absent. Pilula axillaris present in male. Tyttholeon is most likely to be confused with Maracan- dula Currie, since both of these genera lack spurs. In Mara- candula, the first tarsomere is longer than the following three together. The venation is much less dense in Tyttho- leon, and Rs+MA originates farther out on the wing; in Maracandula the costal cells are higher than long. The white setae on legs and thorax are not nearly so long as the macrochetae of Maracandula. There is no similarity be- tween the internal genitalia. Maracandula (Figures 9, 10) has on the paramere a lateral, heavily sclerotized ligulate lobe, and a sharp ridge on the posterior face. In T. puerilis the parameres are folded in a complex manner, but have no conspicuous heavily sclerotized hooks or lobes. Generotype the following species: 1956] Adams — Myrmeleontidae 107 Tyttholeon puerilis, new species Figures 7, 8, 11, 12 Face pale, brown spot above posterior articulation of mandible and at joint of cardo and stipes; brown band be- tween bases of antennae, emarginate below; vertex with an anterior row of three brown spots, middle row of two black marks connected by a line, and a posterior row of three brown spots. Last segment of labial palpi short, slender, curved, fuscous. Antennae short, heavily clavate; scape pale with apical fuscous ring; pedicel dark; flagellum 23- 24 segmented, the first two or three segments more or less fused, shiny-fuscous basally, reddish brown in middle; a dark band at base of club, club yellow-buff. Pronotum pale, a single dark band each side, narrower in front of furrow, often interrupted at furrow. Scutelli pale with bilobed anterior brown spot and thin median posterior black line. Coxae with basal and preapical brown spots, connected on mid and hind coxae. Femora pale, an apical dark stripe on posterior side of fore-femur, anterior side of mid and hind femora. Fore and mid tibiae with sub- basal and preapical dark bands, hind tibiae pale. Tarso- meres pale with narrow apical dark bands. Abdomen (é): brown, first tergite dark, second with narrow pale band and a pair of large posterior pale spots, third and fourth tergites with paired basal, intermediate, and apical spots, remaining segments with basal and apical spots only. Gonarcus and parameres (Figures 11, 12). Ectoprocts short, slightly produced posteriad below. (¢): tergites dark with a pair of apical pale spots on each. Many prominent setae on thorax, coxae, and femora. Most tibial setae black. Abdominal setae white, black on ectoprocts and terminal segments of female. Wings: longitudinal veins pale, interrupted with dark at intersections of cross veins. Cross veins almost all dark, the membrane beside them bordered with dark, giving an effect of uniformly distributed short transverse brown dashes over wing; somewhat paler on hind wing. 108 Psyche [September Fore wing: 3 presectorals, Rs+MA 4-6 branched; 6-9 basal cubital cross veins; 6-10 anal veinlets. Hind wing: 1 or 2 presectoral cross veins; Rs+MA 4-6 branched; CuA, 5-8 branched; 4-7 basal cubital cross veins; 3-5 inner cubital veinlets. Measurements (mm. means in parentheses) : body length 10.2-14.5 (12.0) ; abdomen 6.8-10.0 (8.2) ; fore wing, length 13.0-17.7 (14.4). width ¢ 2.8-3.9 (3.24), @ 3:1-4.8 (3.6); last segment, labial palpus 0.23-0.34 (¢ 0.380, ¢@ 0.25); antennae 2.3-2.8 (2.6); pterothorax 1.9-2.8 (2.27); third abdominal tergite 1.5-2.5 (¢ 2.02, 9? 1.84); pronotum, length at middle 0.56-0.85 (0.69), width 0.75-1.14 (0.95). Calijonnias Mono. Co. Near lonazya iol o-onh arcane Comstock (LAM); Inyo Co.: Furnace Creek, Death Valley IV-18-49, 2 ¢, 1 ¢, O. Bryant (CAS); Death Valley, IV 1920, ¢, J. D. Gander (CAS). San Bernardino Co.: Provi- dence Mts., VI-1-37, ¢, R. H. Andrews (LAM); Needles, V-8-39, Van Duzee (CAS). Riverside Co.: Palm Springs, VI-27-39, 246, 42, E. G. Linsley (CIS) (type 6 and allo- type @ in the Calif. Acad. of Sciences). San Diego Co.: Borego, IV-9-40, 1¢ 1¢, Sperry (MCZ); San Felipe Can- yon, IV-18-25, ¢, at light Timberlake (UCR). Arizona: Yuma Co.: Mohawk, IV-10-47, 24 22; Sperry (MCZ) ; Aztec, VI-16-54,1¢ 5¢, Stange & Menke (Stange Coll.). A TECHNIQUE FOR SHIPPING HIPPOBOSCID PUPARIA (DIPTERA)! By I. BARRY TARSHIS 812 Montclaire Ave., Frederick, Maryland Special techniques have been developed for shipping dipterous insects. Geigy (1948) devised and used a cold temperature cabinet which was kept at 8.0° C. (46.8° F.) for shipping adult tsetse flies of the species Glossina palpalis from Tropical Africa (Congo) to Basle, Switzer- land, via air express. Brennan and Mail (1954) success- fully shipped adult mosquitoes of the species Culex tarsalis in a cold temperature cabinet that employed Sno-Gel Re- freezants (Model R10-8) for temperature control. Adult hippoboscid flies of the species Pseudolynchia canariensis were successfully shipped via air express in cardboard mailing tubes for a distance of several hundred miles by the writer (Tarshis, 1953). (This method was only suc- cessful when transit took but a day to a day and a half and the temperature was moderate.) The author (Tarshis, 1954) also transported live hippoboscid flies (Stiubometopa umpressa and Lynchia hirsuta) in a cold temperature cabinet, maintained at around 7.0° C. (44.6° F.), distances of 70 to 300 miles in an automobile. During studies now being conducted by the author on the biology of Egyptian hippoboscids, an attempt was made to again ship live adult flies in mailing tubes, but the flies always arrived dead. The great distance and consequent time involved in shipping flies from Egypt to Maryland readily explains this lack of success. No attempt was made to ship the flies in refrigerated con- * The author wishes to express sincere appreciation to Lt. Com. Harry Hoogstraal, Head, Zoology Dept., NAMRU —83, Cairo, Egypt for obtain- ing and sending the puparia and for his continuing help and interest in this work. 109 110 Psyche [September tainers, aS was accomplished in the above described works, since the cost of such containers and their shipment would be prohibitive; it is also doubtful if any commonly avail- able refrigerants would maintain the necessary low tem- perature over such a prolonged period (10 to 15 days). The problem of how to ship live adult hippoboscid flies such a long distance was obviated when experiments showed that puparia of the flies could be shipped this distance economically, simply and most successfully via air express. The puparia were packed in the following manner for shipment. Several puparia were loosely wrapped in a piece of cleansing tissue and then the tissue-wrapped puparia were put into a shell vial which had a small piece of cotton in the bottom. The number of puparia in a vial would vary with the size of the puparia and the vial. For these shipments a maximum of five puparia of Hip- pobosca longipennis and three puparia of H. equina were placed in each 15 & 40 mm. vial. The puparia could also be put one or two at a time unwrapped into the vials with cotton under and over each succeeding one or two puparia. The vial was plugged with cotton or capped with a plastic screw-on cap. Five or six vials were then placed into a cardboard mailing tube padded all around the inside and bottom with cotton to prevent the vials from breaking and the puparia from being severely jarred. Upon arrival in Frederick, Maryland, the puparia were removed from the vials and placed into individual rear- ing vials (25 « 55 mm.) covered with 10-mesh nylon bebbinette. The vials containing the puparia were then placed into an incubator set at 26.5° C. (79.7° F.). Adult flies of H. longipennis emerged from puparia in from 26 to 381 days (from the date of collection in Egypt to date of emergence in Maryland). Adult flies of H. equina emerged in 29 days under the same conditions. This ship- ping method could be employed for puparia of all viviparous flies. 1956] Tarshis — Hippoboscids 111 LITERATURE CITED Geicy, R. 1948. Elevage de Glossina palpalis. Acta Tropica, 5:201-218. BRENNAN, J. M., and Matz, G. A. 1954. A technic for shipping live mosquitoes with particular reference to Culex tarsalis. Science, 119 (3092) :443-444. Tarsuis, I. B. 1953. The transmission of Haemoproteus lophortyx O’Roke of the valley California quail by hippoboscid flies of the species stalbome- topa impressa (Bigot) and Lynchia hirsuta Ferris and the elucida- tion of the biology of these ectoparasites. Manuscript of Ph.D. Thesis, Deposited in Library, University of California, Berkeley, California. Tarsuis, I. B. 1954. Transporting live hippoboscids (Diptera). Psyche, 61(2) :58-62. 112 Psyche [September Two CASES OF INTESTINAL MYIASIS IN MAN PRODUCED BY HERMETIA (DIPTERA: STRATIOMYIIDAE). —In the late sum- mer of 1955 a man living in Tucson brought in a larval Hermetia, probably in its final instar, that had been passed with the stools. He reported that he had had a series of symptoms that might be traced to the myiasis, beginning with gastric upset several months before, passing through diarrhea and ending in uneasiness in the lower tract. The specimen was alive when he brought it in but, unfortu- nately, it escaped. It agreed well with Hermetia larvae in our collections but a specific name could not be assigned. This year, October 15, 1956, another man brought in a larva passed with the stools and in this case reported that he had noticed no symptoms at all. The larva was active at first but soon became quiescent and had obviously pupated. A female adult of Hermetia allucens (L.) emerged on the morning of October 23. 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