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even those writings which it would be most appropriate to notice, the Editor of the Rec- ord has not withheld from publication suchar- ticles as came to hand, even though of minor importance. He will in the future preserve these in manuscript, indexed as well as may be, for reference, and publish the record only of the more important articles. Should
means, from sources yet unknown, be af-
forded for the presentation of a complete work, none would appreciate the value of it more than he.
In order to perfect this record, the
editor respectfully requests that copies of pub- lications containing entomological articles -
may be sent by the authors or the publishers, or by friends of PSYCHE, to the Library of the CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB,
where they will be at the disposition of the subscribers to PSYCHE, throughout North
America, under the rules of the CLUB.
B : PICKMAX MANX.
PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES.
12 JAN. 1883. -The 89th meeting of the
Club, the sixth annual meeting since the in- corporation of the Club, was held at 16 Qyincy St., Cambridge, 12 Jan. 1883. Nine persons (eight of whom were members) were pres-
ent.
The Secretary stated that Miss Cora H.
Clarke had been transferred, 10 Jan. 1883, at her own request. from the list of associate members to the list of active members.
The following persons were elected to active membership : H : Savage, of Boston, Mass. ; Prof. Stephen Alfred Forbes, of Normal, 111. ; W : Hague Harrington, of Ottawa, Canada ; Prof. G : Macloskie, of Princeton, N. J. ; Prof. Francis Huntington Snow, of Lawrence,
Kansas.
The annual reports of the Secretary, of
the Treasurer and of the Librarian were read and approved, the approval of the Treasur- es's report being subject to the action of the Auditing Committee. '
A motion was carried "that the "Club re- sume the publication of PSYCHE, beginning with no. 105, of vol. 4 (the no. for Jan. 1883), and that, with the exceptions herein- after stated, vol. 4 be published in similar style, typographically and otherwise, as vol. 3. 'Exception I. That the price of subscrip- tion be raised to two dollars per year, five dollars per volume of three years, and that subscribers can have, after payment of their subscriptions, if they so desire, in addition to their regular copy, a copy printed on one side of the paper, for pasting the slips of the Bibliographical Record.
"Exception 2. That the editors to be elect- ed be recommended to make the Bibliograph- ical Record more current, if possible, and to omit publishing the record of notes and items of minor value which are contained in the popular and daily press."
Other changes proposed in PSYCHE were,
after some discussion, left to the discretion of the editors.
The following officers were elected for the ensuing year : President, B : P. Mann ; Sec- retary, G : Dimmock ; Treasurer, S : Hen- shaw ; Librarian, C. C. Eaton; members at large of the Executive Committee, R. Hay- ward and E : L. Mark.
A motion was carried to elect a managing and an associate editor of PSYCHE, these edi- tors to have full power to add to their nun]- ber. B: P. Mann was elected managing edi- tor, and G: Dimmock associate editor, for the ensuing year.
The retiring President, Mr. S : H. Scudder, delivered his address, entitled "On mesozoic cockroaches."
The address was a general re-
view of what is known of cockroaches of this age and a comparison of their forms with other fossil and living forms. The address was illustrated with many figures and with numerous specimens of fossils.
Mr. W: Trelease communicated ( by the
Secretary) the following note :
"At the Novembez meeting of the Club, in 1881, I showed a specimen of ant architec- ture which was further described in PSYCHE for Feb.1882. At the time this was written I had forgotten that Mr. Walsh has recorded Pu&e 4 Oil-Wpre.1903). hfp //psyche aitclub orgW-t-OO13 htd



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(Pract. entom., v. 2, p. 40) cases constructed y mica Ziueolata? Say over an aphis on
zM: o r m sfdofitfera, and by a Formica over an aphis, on Stilix.
A case of the same kind
on a species of alder is recorded by Mr. Win. Couper as occurring near Toronto, in Canada. Lubbock (Scientific lecture^, p. 71) states that 'sometimes the ant? even build covered ways up to and over the aphides, which,
moreover, they protect from the attacks of other insects.'"
Mr. J: G. Jack stated that he had seen
Vattcssa auitu&~, with unrolled proboscib, apparently sticking the sweet excretion about aphides, and had noticed similar actions in Limenitis dissipus and L, arthemif.
Mr. A. F. Foerste communicated (by Mr.
W : Trelease and the Secretary) a note con- cerning the habits of Alms ocslafus. This note chiefly described the habit of feigning death and the reluctancy to spring in this species of el<r.#eridue. Mr. G : Dfininock said he had noticed that A. orsiiafvs disliked to spring.
Mr. S: H. Scudder spoke of some speci-
mens of tepidoptera, in different stages, which were for sale by Dr. W : Wittfeld, of Georgians, Brevard Co., Fla.
Mr. S : H. Scudder said, in reply to a
question, that all hesjeridae spin light co- coons. and that a few other butterflies allied to the hesyeridae spin delicate cocoons. From these cowon-spinning forms there is a gradual transition through forms which hang their pupae with a loop to tbrnns which su$- pend their pupae by the tip of the abdomen only.
g FEB. 1883.-The goth meeting was held
at 19 Brattle Square, Cambridge, g Feb. 1883. In the absence of the President Mr. S: H. Scudder was chosen chairman.
Six persons
(five of whom were members) were present. The Secretary read a letter from Mr. S:
Henehaw, who regretted that he was not
able to accept the office of Treasurer to which lie had been elected at the last meeting. [Mr. 3: P. Mann will remain acting Treasurer, therefore, until a new election is held.] A proposition to hold a special meeting of the Club at Minneapolis, Minn., on the day preceding the meeting of the American Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science, with othe'r propo~itione in relation to the proposed meeting, was referred to the Executive Com- mittee with full power to act, but with the recommendation that the Committee should correspond with Mr. J. A. Lintner, who !in& already been asked to call a meeting of ento- molugiets at that time and place, 60 that there might be no interference with the
meeting to be called by him.
Mr. Mnnn cominimkated (through the
Secretary) some notes in regard to the ar- rangements necessary to be made for the
issue of volume 4 of PSYCHE, and further remarks were made by the Secretary upon
the same subject.
The following persons were elected to ac- tive membership: August F. Foerhte, of
Dayton, Ohio; C: Diehl Ziniinerman. of
Buffalo, N. Y. ; Ctipt. T. J. Mathews, of Gray- ville, 111. ; Theodor Pergande, of Washing- ton, D. C.
Mr. G: Dirninock called attention to a
paper by Dr. Hermann Henking,
entitled,
'I Beitrage zur Anatomic, Entwickiungs-
geschichte and Biologie von Tromhidium
fuligino~wit Herm." (Zeitschrift f. wiesensch. Zool.. 1882, v. 37, p. 553-663, p1. 34-36), out- lining briefly the scope of the paper, and especially noticing a method of coloration by an alcoholic borax-carmine solution, as described by Dr. Henking.
Mr. S: H. Scudder exhibited mme plates
from a paper on fossil newoptera now in
preparation, and a colored plate to illustrate the life-history of a species of Retihht, the pine-moth of Nantucket.
Mr. Roland Thaxter called attention to a species of Ifo~agria which he hnd studied. The larva bores in rushes from which it
probably emerges as pupa. The question of how the egg survives the winter in the flood- ed and frozen marshes bmuglit out some
discussion.
Mr. S : H. Scudder exhibited a large nun+ ber of figures of fossil coleoptera from Flor- issant, Co!.




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