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Psyche 3:89, 1880.

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PSYCHE.
represented in the collection of the American Entomological Socrtty, and 10 are in the colleotiona C-RID~, M ~ ~ ~ , , JULY 1880.
of hlfrage and Gundlach. Mr. 0; A. Blake stated that Catacidu ediiha is the same aa C. oina- Comsiwfiicailom, exchanges and editors'ppples should tie whSresad to EDITORS OF Ps~cs~,CQisvbridge, Mass. Communfeations for- publication wi PSYCHE fnwt lie properly iwthefrffcaterf, and so ammyinow mticus wit2 be pvbIi<tftfd.
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PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES.
EI~TOMOLOGICALSECTION OF THE ACADEMY OF
NATURAL SCIENCES, PHlLAOBMPHIA, PA.
[Abstractfrom Ike Monthly proceedings.]
10 JAN. 1879.-Dr. G: EL Horn exhibited a CdLiinorPha and a Hdicoitia from Costa Rica, which re~embled each other BO closely in form and color, "that .either might have been placed anong a number of specimens at the other, and, without a careful glance, would not be thought distinct." As the group to which the Helicania belongs is rarely or never attacked by birds, the mimicry belongs to the "protective " class. Dr.
Horn gave reasons for thinking the idea of pro- tective resemb!(ince had been pushed too far. - p. 2-3.
14 FBB. 1879. -Type specimens of Catocola editha and 0. waishii were presented to the Amer- ican Entomological Society by the author, W: H: Edwards. . . . A collection of 63 genera, W ape- cies of rhopalorma and 17 genera, 27 species of heterocera, collected by the late W. M. Gabb, in Costa was exhibited. - p. 8-4.
14 MARCH 1879. -Mr. E. T. Crewon described pamopw edwardsi; [see Proceedings for 9 May 1879, p. 101, a new speciea of chrysididae, from California ; the genus had not hithertobeen found represented in 'North America. Mr. C: A. Blake described Mviilla gabbii a. ap, from Costa Rica. Mr. E. T. Cresson announced the completion of hi8 Catalog of North American apidae, e-nmner- atuig 45 genera and 724 species, of which 113 qeeies, principally from Mexico and the West Indies, are unknown to him; 801 specie0 are pix; he stated also that in the summer of 1878 a Papilio cresphntes waa captured near Philadel- phia, where it very rarely occurs. Mr. E. T. Cresson announced the death of F: Smith, of the Brifisk Museum- p. 4-8.
11 APRIL 1870. -Mr. E. T. Cremon described Eft-paragk scutellaris, a n. g. and sp. of uespidae, from Nevada, belonging probably to the tribe masanhae; and read descriptions of Trigondys mexicanus, T. laeviceps and T. nftvadensis, three new species, the former two from Mexico, and the last, from 'Nevada
Dr. G: B-Horn reviewed
the family mycteridae, advocating its union with duadrytdae on the one hand and with pythidm on the other, and hsieting on the greater im- portance of the sexual characters RE the true means of specific distinction in the genera Sfyc- terus and Lacconotus, - p, 8-8.
9 MAY 1878. -Mr. C: A. Blake described Pam- phila dtikolum n. ep., fmm Costs, Rica; Mr. E. T. Cresson deecribed Oryssw omidentali8 and Cleptes amriwna, from Colorado and Nevada, Orpaw mexicanus from Mexico, and Cfeptes parpvruta from Vancouver's Island, four new species. Rev. H: C. McCook exhibited under the microscope thin sections of the mandibles of Pogonoutyrmesc -iorbofus, the agricaliiiriil ant of Texas, showing the loss of substance by wear on tha sharp edges of the teeth. The same fact waa also illustrated in the mandibles of Pusids and of other
toleoptera, ae well ELB in other merubera of the body exposed to wear. [See Psychs adwrhser, May-June 1879, p. 9.1 (To be contlkwd.)
REVIEW.
INSECT LIVES,Or Born in prison, by Mra, Julia P. Ballard, [see Eec., no. 17361 is a very attract- ively written account of the authofa experiences in raising a few butterflies and moths, and is well designed tointerest children, or indeed older per- sons, in the subject, though in eome pftrticulara beyond the comprehension of children.
It has
the merit of accuracy and clearneq and ifs full of a delightful suggestiveneaa of the treasurer in store for the young explorer yho ie led by it to try her own experiments.
B: P. Sf.




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