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September-October &Sj.] PSYCHE. 99
AT THE meeting- of the French entomo-
logical society, held July it, Mr. E, Leftvre showed a large solitary ant allied to Ponera, found about Hong Kong, remarkable for the extraordinary developtnunt of .its mouth parts, and for its power of leaping; being able, when disturbed, to make bounds of
twenty to twenty-five centimetres. The
statement wak confirmed by the experience of earlier observers.
As the legs are in no
way developed for springing, Mr. Lefevre was inclined to think that it was accom- plished in some way by its buccal organs.- Sciame, 14 Sept. 1883, v. 2, p. 386.
DURING THE iast few years Pajilio cres-
$lKintes has been taken in Connecticut, but I do not find any record of its capture as far to MK. F. H. SPRAGL'B gives us the follow-
ing notes upon rare diurnal lepidopterawhich he has taken the past summer in Massachu- setts. Grapfa faunus (a pair), Leverett, 15 Aug. Li9ftmitis $rosw$ina (faded f),
Holyoke, 8Atig. Argy~nis dta̤ti (severs!), Leverett, Mt. Tom, Mt. Holyoke, 7-17 Aug., appeared much earlier. Buftoitia claudfa, Maiden, a fine new 8 each of the following dates : 17 and 27 July, I Aug.. 7 Sept. %onia lavinia. Malden, a fresh pair 21 July, one fresh specimen 21 Aug. ; Jamaica Plain, a new f, i8 July; Boston, a new specimen,
18 Sept. Limenitis' ar/Semi'.t, 'Maiden, a poor $ , i Aug. ; Amherst, 2 fair 9, 7 Aug. ; South Hadley, B new & 7 Aug. ; Deerfield, a new 8, 17 Aug. Fcnkca farqikius,
Leverett, 7 fair specimen?. 10 Aug.; Deer- Psyche 4099-100 fp-IYOlj, hllp://pyche.enlcluh we/414-0099 html



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100 PSYCHE. [September-October 1883.
field, 15 fair specimens, 17 Aug. Vanessa milbeyti has been abundant in some localities about Boston this season. Another rare
capture was two partly grown larvae of
Cithermia regalis, at Leverett, 15 Aug.
DR. HERMANN MULLER, of Lippstadt,
Germany, who has made many interesting
and valuable contributions to scientific litera- ture upon the mutual relations of insects and plants, especially upon the fertilization of- plants by insects, died at Prad, in Tyrol, 25 August. His name heads over fifty titles of the bibliographical record of volume three of PSYCHE, and the name of his brother, Dr. Fritz Muller, of Blumenau, Brazil, about twenty more. Dr. Hermann Miiller has con- tributed largely to Just's Botanischer~'ahres- berich;', to Nature and to Kosmos; and,
among other separate works, may be noted his excellent treatise on the fertilization of flowers by insects and their mutual adapta- tion for that function. The above statements convey only an imperfect idea of the amount, and almost no idea of the value of the papers written by Dr. Muller, whose death will be mourned by his numerous correspondents
and by naturalists in general as the loss of a true philosopher in his special field of re- search. G: D.
SOCIETY MEETINGS.
THE REGULAR meetings of the Cambridge
Entomological Club will be held at 7.45 p. m., on the days following :-
12 Oct. 1883.
14 Mar. 1884.
9 Nov. LL 11 Apr. 1‰
14 Dec. LL 9May Li
11 Jan. 1884. 13 June
8 Feb. bL
G. DIMMOCK, Secretary.
THE NEW YORK Entomological Club meets
twice monthly, except in June, July and
August, but no special date is fixed for each meeting.
HENRY EDWARDS, Secretary.
THE REGULAR meetings of the Entomo-
logical Section of the Boston Society of Natural History will be held at N. W. corner of Berkeley and Boylston Sts., Boston, Mass., at 7.45 p. m., on the days following :-
24 Oct. 1883. 27 Feb. 1884.
28 Nov. 26 Mar. <'
26 Dec. 23 Apr. L(
23 Jan. 1884. 28 May LL
EDWARD BURGESS, Secretary.
THE REGULAR meetings of the Entoino-
logical Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, Pa., will be held at S. W. corner of 19th and Race Sts., on the days following :-
12 Oct. 1883.
14 Mar. 1884.
9 Nov. L' 11 Apr. 'L
14 Dec. 9 May '<
11 Jan. 1884. 13 June '-
8 Feb. 'l
JAMES H. RIDINGS, Recorder.
THE SEMI-ANNUAL meetings of the Ameri-
can Entomological Society will be held at S. W. corner of 19th and Race Sts., Philadelphia, Pa., on the days following :-
10 Dec. 1883.
9 June 1884.
JAMES H. RIDINGS, Recording Secretary.
THE REGULAR monthly meetings of the
Montreal Branch of the Entomological Soci- ety of Ontario, will be held at Montreal, Qe., Canada, on the days following :-
2 Oct. 1883.
5 Feb. 1884.
6 Nov. 4 Mar.
4 Dec. 'l I Apr. cL
8 Jan. 1884. 6 May 'L
G. J. BOWLES, Secretary.
THE MONTHLY meetings of the Brooklyn
Entomological Society will be held in the rooms of Wright's Business College, Broad- way, corner of Fourth Street, Brooklyn,
E. D., the last Saturday of each month ex- cept July and August.
I?. G. SCHAUPP, Secretary.
No. 111-112 were issued 14 Sept. 1883.




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