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Psyche 4:148, 1883.

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CAMBRIDGE, MASS., MARCH 1884.
Commi~ftimliou~, exchnfls a d editors' cojk yhould be addressed to EDITORS OF Psycu~, Cam. bridge, Mass* Cowiffftfticotioti~. for pu^icattw in PSYCHE funst be property authfniicutfd, nJnf nu fl~ouy- motts vrticirs will bejfubfisfied,
PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES,
CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB.
S JUNE 1883.-The 94th meeting of the
Club was held at 19 Brattle Square, Cam- bridge, 8 June 1883. In the absence of the President. Mr. R. Hayward waschosen Chair- man. Five persons were present.
Mr. S. H. Scucitler reviewed P. H. Gosse's '-On the clasping organs ancillai? to genera- tion in certain groups of the lepidoptern" (Trans. Linn. soc. Loud-. April 1883. Zoo], : . 2. v.. a, pt. 6, p. 265-345. PI. 26-33) and described the genera! structure of the genita- iia of tepidoptera, giving the nomendature of these parts according to Gosse and accord- ing to other authors, [For further notice of this review see Sci'rure, 6 July 1883, v. 2, p. 22-23.]
Mr. G. Dim mock exhibited, n living speci- men of Buthi occifitiiu~, and described some e habits of -that species of scorpion.
cimen "shown was taken near the
aboratory, at Banvitls-sur-mer. Pyr&
ntales, France, in May 1882.
. Hayward showed a male specimen
ssn afraia;nnd some discuhsion fol-
Mr. G. Dimmock said that after repented
attempts he had succeeded in making the
male of Cdisx drink. The structure of the mouth-parts of the male had led the speaker to believe that the male mosquito could drink aitho it could not bite us and thus get at our blood. and by keeping a male without drink for several days he had had the satisfaction of seeing the insect drink water freely from it moist cloth.
THE LARGE number of references to gdl?
and gall-insects in the Bibliographiciil record, recently. are brought together in answer to inquiries from correspondents. We have
many more on hand, not yetcomplete enough to print in the record. but sufficient for im- mediate use. Having brought together, in the coin-se of years, by diligent labor, an im- mense stock of references, partially indexed, we are prepared to supply such to correspon- dents, in manuscript. We deem it no more than just to require such correspondents to pay for the afisiiitance thus rendered them, either in kind or in money which may be ap- plied 10 defraying the expenses of PSYCHE. B: P. M.
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LONDON LETTER.
EAST DVLWICH, LONDON,
JANUARY 5th- 1884.
One of the most important and extensive
contributions to a knowledge of the Japanese <;~ttomoIoepical fauna has recently been receiv- ed in this country from the hands of Mr. Geo. Lewis, This gentleman, having made a no
inconsiderable collection during a previous sojourn in Japan, returned to that country for the express purpose of supplementing and in- creasing the same, and being an experienced British collector wan thus enabled to bring home a magnificent series of coleoptera, new roptera and rhynchota. The coleoptera in several families have already been treated by Messrs. Bates, Gorhmn and Lewis ; the neu- roptera have been handled by Baron de Seiys-



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Longcha~np;,, and I have given a first report not meet with it, when residing and collect- on the rhynchota. an order of which some ing there myself, some fifteen years ago, nor Japanese members have previously received have I received it since, in numerous collec- the efficient attention of your own country- tions derived from that locality.
Last year,
man, Mr. P. R. L'hler. We have no state aid however, the species seems to have been corn- to entoinoiogy in this country, and our sue- man from Penang to singapore.
I first re-
cess in the study of the science has alwnys ceived two specimens captured on Penang
been largely indebted to the voluntary efforts Hill, and sent me as a new species ; others of those votaries who possess the love of en- shortly followed from Province Wellesley, tomology combined with the necess-ary leisure with the remark of an experienced collector and competence to undertake or promote that the species was quite new to the locality; such expeditions. nnd almost simultaneously the Indian mail Herr Georg Semper, of Altona, who has brought me more examples from Sungie, recently paid us a visit, has informed me of Ujong, Malacca and Singapore. his intention to publish a work on the rhopa- For some years past, owing to the demands locera of the Philippine Islands, for which he of foreign institutions, entomological litera- possesses good material in the collection ture has reached a pecuniary value that has made by his brother Prof. Carl Seniper dur- rendered its acquisition by many student? a ing his memoritble journey to those islands. matter of some inconvenience and difficulty. . Another work of this nature iip in the press, At recent sales, held in London, of the books viz.. a new edition. n ith much new matter, of deceased naturalists. these high prices have of Mr. Trimen's "Rhopalocera Airicae nus- failed to obtain. and we may hope that prices trmliis."
may soon be lese prohibitory to those work- We are still having a very mild winter, re- ing entomologists to whom a library of refer- sembling in this respect its immediate pre- ence is a real necessity.
decessors.
It is probable, therefore, that the
Mr. Edward Whymper, who paid a visit
enwing suinmer may also foilow its recent pre- to Ecuador in 1879-1880, where he made a cursors in exhibiting a considerable dearth in considerable collection in natural history, insect life, as the complaints of lepidopterisits especially in regard to entomology, is now and other collectors in our entomologicaS writing the iiccoiint of his journey, which magazinesduringthe last few years abundant- wilt shortly be published. A featureof this ly testify.
The mild, damp winters are well
work will be a scientific appendix giving the known to be destructive to pupating insect details ant! identifications of his collection, life, but these do not explain the more diffi- contributed by a body of specialists who have cult and interesting problem as to the sudden undertaken this work. The entomological and plentiful appearance in one season of a coIlection is not very large, but its interest generally scarce and almost unobserved spe and biological importance is due to the fact cies.
This is not confined to temperate cli- that many of the specimens were collected in mates, as I have lately received a very forcible very high altitudes, and thus contrast with iilustration of the same phenomenon in those found in the hot, tropical valieye. the tropics.
Ragadia crisis Hdbn.. a well In my previous letter (v. 4, p. 94) the name known and handsome member of the safyri- "Dr. Leitner" should be spelled "Dr. Leuth- me, is not a scarce insect in the Indo-Mala- tier." yan region, though it has hitherto been un- W. L. Distant.
recorded from the Malay peninsula. I did



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