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Psyche 11:63, 1904.

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1 9 4 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 63
food, and all were soon actively eating. At this writing all have passed the last moult and some are preparing to pupate.
One swallow does not make a summer, and it is perhaps not safe to conclude /
&at this method of treatment would always bring success ; but after experimenting for four winters with many larvae of this genus, indoors and out, under varying conditions, with practically complete failure, it is gratifying to be able to record this one success,
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB.
A special meeting was held in the Council room on the evening of March 28, 1904.
President Ernerton in the chair ; ten members present. The minutes of
the last meeting were read and accepted. Mr. W. L. W. Field spoke briefly on Afefhds of Labeling specimens of insects, dwelling especially upon the importance of topographic data such as are kept by botanists. Mr. Field also showed two specimens of Papilh turnits, both females of the yellow type, but showing great difference in the extent of the black markings, and a specimen oE Chrysoplwws ttwe taken in Alstead, N. H. Mr. Newcomb showed a " white-banded ~irstda " (see the February number of Psyche, page 4) from Long Island. Mr. Morse then pre-
sented A Fimnal and Floral Tabulation Se/ttme, illustrated by many maps and diagrams. Informal discussion followed.
The 236th meeting was held in the Council room on the evening of April 18, 1904.
President Emerton in the chair ; eleven persons present. The record of the last meeting was read and accepted. Mr. Wm. P, Hender-
son of Boston was unanimously elected to active membership. The Chair announced the appointment of Messrs. Buxton, Denton, and Sampson to serve as Exhibition Committee.
It being impossible for Dr. Hans Gadow to be present and address the Club as announced, the members present then performed for their own benefit some of the simple experiments on the pigments of butterflies' wings for which Dr. Gadow had supplied directions. Mr. Emerton exhibited' the cocoon of a hymenopterous parsite reared from the spider Steatota IwcaZix, and some Stapky/i?;idac found in a colony of Thttes. Mr. Blackburn showed a number of early moths captured at electric lights. Mr. Field presented brief abstracts of some recent entomological literature. . .
It was voted to hold a special meeting on the evening of May 3. Adjoum- ment was reached at 9.40.
W. L. W. FIELD,
Secretary.




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