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Psyche 11:121, 1904.

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LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOMETR1DAE.-LVII. BY HARRISON G. DYAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.
A$lodes daminata Dyar.
A discussion of this form will be found in my paper on the fauna of the Kootenay District of British Columbia (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. ssvii, 903, 1904). Egg. Elliptical, perfectly flat above and below, one end a.littie depressed, no truncation, its area represented by a slight oblique irregularity. Reticulations indicated only by the slight pores at the angles in a neatly hexagonal pattern. OGange ochraceous, shining, later
dull reddish.
Size 1.1 X .7 X ..5 mm.
Hatched in 9 days. The larvae ate willow. Stage I.
Head rounded, erect, not ~hining, orange ochraceous, with short, stout, slightly swollen setae.
Body very short and robust, flattened, winged by lateral projections. Yellow brown, a narrow dorsal line and band above the lateral wings dark brown ; no shields. On
joint 2 dorsally three of the setae are raised on irregular club-shaped papillae; on joints 5 to g seta i is similarly elevated, a truncate papilla, bearing the seta on the anterior aspect. On joints 5 to 8 seta v is pushed dorsad in line wjth iv and the two raised on an angular promi- nence. Tubercles small blackish, setae short, swollen tipped, ii especially flattened fan- shaped and cleft at tip.
Broad, illy defined subventral and ventral bands. Tubercle i of
joint 12 is elevated on a papilla.
Stage 11. Head rounded bilobed, brown, densely granular in paler; width .s mm. Body flattened with wing-shaped, double pointed projections on the sides of joints .5 to 9. Tubercles on joints 2, 3 and 12 conically produced. Light brown dorsally with many pale granules, tubercles papillose, setae minute. A broad dark brown area subventrally below the projections with light granules. Venter contrasting light brown ; feet all pale. The larva does not bear any attached objects on the projections. Stnge Iff.
Head rounded bilobed, dark brown, pale granular, face washed with whitish except the sutures; width 3 mm. Body as before, the projections of joints 6 to 8 pronounced, bent upward. Dorsal tubercles of thorax and joint 12 highly papillose ; anal feet triangular. Light brown, densely pale granular, sides below the projections dark brown; dorsal line dark.
Stnge ZV.
Head higher than wide, flat before, bilobed, rounded, sutures deep, finely papillose roughened; width 1.1 mm. A11 pale whitish brown, finely papillose granular, the spicular granules pale. Nearly unmarked; a series of triangular brown dorsal spots on the anterior edges of the segments of joints 6 to 8, the under sides of the projections of joints 5 to 9 and a subdorsal dash on joint 12 dark brown. The prominences consist of the four corners of the collar, twoon the posterior edge of joint 2, side angles on joints 3 and 4, slight projections on the sides of joints 5 and 9, distinct double tipped ones on joints 6 to 8 ; tuber- cle ii on joint 12 a high cone. Tubercles and setae obsolete, the fine granules almost furry. Stage V. Head rounded bilobed, clypeus depressed at apex, granular; all pale creamy brown, black shaded in sutures and on sides; width 1.6 mm. Body exactly as before, creamy
brown, soft velvety, spicular granular, scarcely marked except darker shades on the under sides of the projections and a brown subdorsal bar on joints I 1-12.



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[December
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB.
THE 240th regular meeting was held at 194 Clarendon Street on the evening of October 18: 1904 ; President Emerton in the chair ; attendance I I. The min-
utes of the last meeting were read and accepted, Mr. J. W. Dow was unanimously.
elected to Active Membership.
Mr. Emerton showed a number of small spiders secured by sifting dead leaves. Mr. Sampson displayed a collection of hymenoptera and Mr. Swett one of lepidop- tera.
Mr. Frost showed specimens of the weevil A~teZahs rhois with its nests, from the speckled alder at Wales, Me., and also showed its parasite OmjhaZe elongatus.
The meeting was then adjourned.
The 241st regular meeting was held in the rooms of the Appalachian Mountain Club, Tremont Building, Boston, on the evening of Nove~nber IS, 1904; President Emerton in the chair ; 2 I persons present. The records of the last meeting were read and accepted. Messrs. J. A. Cushman, 3'. H. Lahee, H. Parker, W. R. Pear- main, I. L. Shaw and M. l). Smith were unanimously elected to Active Member- ship.
Details of the management of the exhibition were discussed. The topic of
6'Instinct and Intelligence in Insects," announced for discussion at this meeting, was not touched upon, but by vote of the Club was registered for the next meeting. Mr. Field made a brief report on behalf of the Publication Committee. The remainder of the evening was devoted to the arrangement of exhibits and informal conversation.
W. L. W. FIELD,
Secrefa~y.
RECENT ENTOMOLOGICAL LITERATURE.
Ast~~isks imzYcafe desc~@tions of new sjecies of Americm hse& or of new genera, 4 The Canadian Entomologist, London, Ont. 5 Entomological News, Philadelphia.
6 Journal of the N. Y. Entomological Society. 8 The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, London, Eng. IS The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London, Eng. 38 Wiener Entomologische Zeitung.




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