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PSYCHE.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., MAY 1880.
PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES.
LIKXEAN SOCIETYOF LOiroON.
6 FEB. 1880.-. . . Mr. A. Hammond exhibited a larva of Tanyps madate. He mentioned
that the coronet and appendages of the thoracic and anal regions had been a& to be homologow with the respiratory orgam of the larva and pupa of pats, &c. Tliishe doubted, inasmuch as the former ori&ated from the ventral and not dor- sal surface, as did the latter, and no tracheae of any size could be traced in them. The two oval bodies in the thorax, De Geer's so-called "air reservoirs," he (Mr. Hammond) considers to be salivary glands, similar to those of the larva of the Crane Fly previoudy described by him. . . . - The Athenaeum, 14 Feb. 1880, p, 220.
19 FEU. 1880.- Specimens of ants, allied to if not identical with Pheidole javana Mtiyr, were shown by Mr. Jag. Briten, as also a series of young and old plants sent by Mr. H. 0. Forbem from Borneo, viz : Mynnccodia divwta and M, glaSwa. The underground stems of these latter all exhibited tunneled galhies not unlike the boring8 of the white ant Termites. These cham- bered stem enlargement6 illustrate a statement of Sig. Beccari that the plants' existence is es- sentially bound up with the ants', for unless the latter attack the young growing Myrmecodiae, the latter soon die. -Another piece of ants' work wag shown by Dr. M. Musters, viz:
a
pitcher plant, Nepenthes bicalcccraiu, also f rorn Borneo. It seems these peculiar pitchers, from having incurved spinous ridges round their throats, are perfect trap8 to creeping insects. To take advantage of the contained food and water, a, species of black ant, too wise to enter by the lid, ingeniously perforates the stalk, and makingapassage upwards, provides a safe inroad and exit to the sumptuous fare of dead and de- caying inse~ts within the pitcher. . . .-J. Afwie in Zool. Anzeiger, 22 March 1880, p, 143-144, BW!OMOLOC ICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO -MON-
TREAL BRANCH,
17 MAY 1880. -7th annual meeting.-The fol- lowing persons were elected to office for the en- suing year: G: J: Bowlee, President; G: B. Pearson, jr., Vice-president; G: H. Bowlea, Sec- retary; Prank Butler Caulfield, Curator; H: Herbert Lynian, W: Couper, and Robert Jack, Memhers of the Council.
The annual report of the Council shows the society to be progressing favorably. A number of valuable works have been added to the library durin~ the year, amd the following papers have been read at the mont111y meetinga : -
1, "A description of the male Alypia maccd- Zochii, Kirby."-W : Coaper.
2. 9 Notes on8 species of COSSMS taken at Mon- treat." -Frank Butler Caulfield.
3. "The milk phnt, its insect parasites, red and black in color." - W : Couper.
4. "How to preserve specimens of insects."- G : J : Bowlea.
5. "On luminous insects!' - G : H. ow lei. 6. "Montreal hymenoptera," - W : Cooper. 7. "Notes on rearing lepidoptera." - H : Her- bert Lyman.
8. "Some of the insects that frequent the or- chard and garden," by Rev. F. W. li'ylea. (Se-
lected.) - G : J: Bowles.
Several tours were made by the members,
during the summer, to the different collecting grounds h the vicinity of Montreal, with good results, a number of new specie8 for our cata- log being di~sovered.
Altogether, I am glad to say, our science h not being neglected here, though, perhaps, not receiving
the attention it deserves, or would
have were more time at our disposal.
G : H. BOWLES, Secretary.




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