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Psyche 5:55-56, 1888.

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May 18SS.J
PSYCHE.
HABITS OF MYGALE IN CONFINE-
MENT.
Mr. Henry C. McCook has published (Proc. Acad. nat. sci. of Philadelphia for 1887) some notes on the habits of Afygale fie~zfziiwhile kept in confinement in Philadelphia. Mr. McCook has had the best success in keeping spiders by feeding them well in summer and giving them but little during the winter, but lets them have all the water they want at all seasons. One Mygale lived over five years, and finally died soon after moulting, though it had moulted safely several times in previous years. The last moult happened in spring, before the spider had much to eat, and for this reason, probably, it was too weak to re- cover from the effects. One of Mr. McCook's mygales lost several limbs while moulting. He says "two of the legs refused to separate from the skin, and after a prolonged struggle they were broken off at the coxae and re- mained within the moult. One foot of another leg shared the same fate." This moult oc- curred in the spring'. In August the spider moulted again, and by this time the lost limbs had grown again, complete but a little smaller than before.
The digging of these mygales was done
with the fore legs and palpi. The dirt was not scratched up by the feet or kicked back- ward but gathered into balls between the mandibles, palpi and feet and carried away from the hole.
James H: Emerton.
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PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES.
CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB.
8 JAX. 1886. -The 116th meeting.
[Con-
tinned from $. 44.1
Abstract of the Secretary's Report on the Library, 8 Jan. 1886. By G : Dimmock.
The circumstances which led the secretary to assume the duties of librarian are given in detail. . . . .
The accession book has been written up to the end of 1885 and enumerates 1355 acces- sions. Of these 164 belong properly to the year 1885. . .
The books of the library have been classi- fied by subjects according to the Dewey deci- mal classification. . . Only a small portion of the books are catalogd on slips. . . Some of the separates and smaller pamflets have
been furnished with stiff manilla-paper cov- ers, and many more separates need to be thus protected.
The rules concerning the loan of books
remain the same as they were in 1882, when they were printed in our annual reports. 12 FEB. 1886.-The I 17th meeting was held at 61 Sacramento St., Cambridge, 12 Feb. 1886. In the absence of the president, Mr. T. W. Harris was chosen chairman.
Mr. Roland Hayward remarkedon the dila-
tion of the first three joints of the middle tarsi of some of our species of Dytiscus, He asked if the patellae of the middle tarsi are functional or not.
Dr. G : Dimmock showed some specimens
of cfirysomelidae to illustrate the subject of color-variation, and made remarks upon ex- periments which he intended to try during the coming summer in order to produce
color-varieties in insects.
12 MAR. 1886.-The 118th meeting was held at61 Sacramento St., Cambridge, 12 March, 1886. In the absence of the president Prof. W: Trelease was elected chairman.
The report of the treasurer, Mr. B: P.
Mann, for the year 1885 was read by the
secretary, and having already received the approval of the auditing committee, was
approved.
[An abstract of this report is appended to the report of thts meeting.]
Nominations nos. 134-135 were acted upon and the following persons elected to active '
membership : 134. Philip Stanley Abbott, of Cambridge. 135. Frank Sedgwick Child, of Cambridge.
Nominations nos. 136-142, all for active membership, were presented, as follows:
136. Prof. T: J. Burrill, of Cham-paign, Ill., Parhi 5 055-56 (prc- 1903). hfp //psyche aitclub org/5/5.0055 htd



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56 PS2'-cz?-z?. [ May 1838.
by Messrs. S. A. Forbes and W : Trelease. 137. W: 12. Garman, of Champaign, Ill.,
by Messrs. Forbes and G : Dimmock. 138.
Clarence M. Weed, of Champaign, ,Ill., by Messrs. Forbes and G : H. Parker. 139.
Charles A. Hart, of Champaign, Ill., by
Messrs. Forbes and F. S. Child. 140. T : F. Hunt, of Champaign, Ill., by Messrs. Forbes and R. Hayward. 141. Prof. C : Robertson, of Carlinville, Ill., by Messrs. Forbes and S : H. Scudder.
142. C : W : Woodworth, of
Champaign, Ill., by Messrs. Forbes and Dim- mock.
The receipt of an invitation to attend the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Verein fur naturkunde, in Cassel, Germany, was announced, and Messrs. S : H. Scudder and R. Hayward were appointed a committee to draft suitable rebolutions,
Mr, S : H. Scudder remarked on a pre-his- toric beetle. Borings made by thib insect had been found in j~miper, which had been discovered in beds of the inter-glacial period. The species belongs to the scolytidae, proba- bly to the subfamily hyliirgini, as defined by Leconte and Horn. The paper was ill~is-
trated by drawings of the borings of this species, and those of existing scolytidae. Dr. G : Dimmock showed a female of Hi-p- ĺ´podami cofivqens, which had hibernated in a cold cellar. The beetle had copulated but once, and that in the fall. Dr. Dimmock gave statistics of the eggs which this beetle had laid, and which proved fertile, and made further remarks upon rearing coccinellidae. Mr. S : H. Scudder made some remarks on
Melitiia cuciirbitae and a related species. [See PSYCHE, July-Sept. 1885, v. 4, p, 303- 304- I
Abstract of Treasurer's Rejort, 12 Mar,
'86.
By B : Pickman Mann.
Open accounts have been kept seperately
with each volume of PSYCHE, or the years to which each corresponds. The account for
volume one shows a deficit of $16.05; that of volume two, $239.59; that for the years 1880 to 1882, inclusive, a balance on hand of $34. 59; that of volun~e four, not yet completed, already shows a deficit of $150.66. The prin- cipal of the permanent publication fund
amounts to $386.39.
[The Treasurer's re-
port was duly audited and approved. ]
(Cofitiniicd from v. 4, 'p. 314.)
I OCT. 1884.-Mr. R. McLachlan exhibited
a specimen of nemo'pteridae, which was cap- tui-ed by Mr. J. J. Walker at Coquiinbo. This was remarkable as hitherto no species of this family had been known to occur in America. This new species appeared to come nearest to Brachystoma Rambur.
Baron C : R. Osten Sacken communicated
"Facts concerning the importation or non- importation of diptera into distant countries." 3 DEC. 1884.--Baron C : R. Osten Sacken
was elected an honorary member of the
society.
Mr. A. S. Olliff exhibited Aciws .vi?zgit- lans, recently described in the "Entornolo- fist's mo1;thZy mag~~zine," from Brazil. It had the appearance of one of the stapJiyli- ~~idae, but was a Cztct~z~s strongly i-esem- bling DiapModes zwakefieldii, from New
Zealand.
Mr. C: 0. Waterhouse exhibited a speci-
men of Julodis fi;zch/ from Karachi, a
buprestid of nearly twice the size of the largest hitherto known species, and recentSy described by him in the " Annals and maga- zine of natural history.'"
Rev. Leonard Blomfield contributed a note on a beetle taken near Bath, England, which proved to be Monoham~nus titiZZator. It
was taken by a man engaged in chopping
wood that proved to be North American pine, and was the second specimen that had been taken alive in England.
Mi-. H. J. S. Fryer contributed a paper
On two remarkable cases of mimicry from
Elopusa, British North Borneo, with remarks on Mr. George Lewis' paper read before the society on 4th October 1882 " . . . [Several cases of mimicry were cited by Messrs. But- ler and Wateshonse in discussing Mr. Fryer's paper; these citations are given in det.ail in the Proceedings.]-Abstrac,ted and compiled from the Trans. Entom. soc. Loud., 1884; Proc.




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