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Psyche 5:44, 1888.

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PSYCHE. [April ISSS.
PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES.
CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB.
11 Dec. 1885.-The 115th meeting.
[Con-
tinued from v. 4, f. 338.1
Dr. G : Dimmock showed samples of the
different grades of Central American cochin- eal, carminic acid and some of its salts. Dr. G: Dimmock showed specimens of
several curious insects.
Among them was
a Culex with a parasitic nematod (2 Gor- &us) dissected from its abdomen. The spec- imen was taken near Leipzig, Germany.
The parasite was very large, relatively to the size of the Cwlex.
No parasitic worms had
been previously recorded from Cdex, except Filaria sangz~/ni.<-//omi?zi.~, altho Mermis had been found in Simulium reftans, in Tanypiis nebiilosus and in a species of C//i~onomus, and Gordius had been taken from Chirnunmus
fl;i?nosus.
8 JAN. 1886. -The 116th meeting was held at 61 Sacramento Street, Cambridge, 8 Jan. 1886; the president, Mr.
S: H. Scudder, in
the chair.
Nominations nos. 132-133 were acted on,
and the following persons elected to active membership: 132. George H. Parker, of
Cambridge, Mass. 133. H. F. Gilbert, of
Somerville, Mass.
Nominations nos. 134-135, both for active membership, were presented, as follows:
134. P. S. Abbot, of Cambridge, Mass.
135. Frank S. Child, of Cambridge, Mass. Both were nominated by Messrs. G: Dim-
mock and S : H. Scudder.
The report of the secretary for 1885 was read and approved.
[An abstract of this re-
port is appended to the report of this meet- ing.] The presentation of the report of the treasurer for 1885 was delayed on account of the illness of Mr. B: P. Mann. The secre- tary then made'a special report on the con- dition of the library [an abstract of which follows the report of this meeting].
The following officers were elected for the ensuing year : president, S. A. Forbes; sec- retary, Roland Hayward ; treasurer, B : Pick- man Mann; librarian, George Dimmock ;
members at large of the executive committee, T. W: Harris and S: H. Scudder. Mr. B:
Pickman Mann was elected editor of Psyche, with power to choose his associates.
The retiringpresident, Mr. S : H. Scudder, then delivered his annual address upon "The developn~ent of the hexapod type in time." This address, which has not been published, was supplementary to that delivered 13 Feb. 1885, on "The geological history of myrio- pods and arachnids." [Psyche, Jan.-Mar.
1885, v. 4, p. 245-250.1
Dr. G : Dimmock showed specimens of the
larva, pupa, and imago of Tinea cloacella. The larvae feed in Polvporus befulinus.
Dr. G: Dimmock described a process of
preparing the larvae of insects by boiling them in strong alcohol, and exhibited speci- mens prepared in this way. Among the
specimens shown were lepidopterous larvae probably$y~alidae, which were taken in Oc- tober 1885 from the larger stalks of Zizania aqu-atica (Indian rice) growing in a small stream in Arlington, Mass, near the boun- dary line between that town and Cambridge. The larvae eat out the scanty pith partitions and the inner portions of the larger stalks. The larvae are from two to three centimetres long, dirty while in ground color, with longi- tudinal brownish stripes upon the upper side, and a dark brown head and pronoturn. They have eight pairs of legs ; a pair each on seg- ments 1-3, 6-9, and 12.
Abstract of Secretary's Report, 8 Jan.'86. By G : Dimmock.
The present meeting of the club is the
116th. In the last annual report of the sec- retary the number of active members was
reported to be twenty-seven ; of associate members, forty-nine. During 1885 no new
members have been elected, and three per- sons have withdrawn, leaving twenty-four active members. One associate member,
Mr. H. K. Morrison, died during the year, leaving forty-eight associate members. . . The officers of the club have continued
over from 1884, because of a lack of a quorum at the meetings.




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