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March -1891.1 PSYCHE. 53
spicuous upon the margin of the posterior wings upon the upperbide, only those just at the anal angle and the two between the me- dian nervuies reappear upon the underside. Of these the two at the anal angle are ob- scure,
while those between the median ner-
vules are large and very distinct. They
are all crowned with red lines and have their black centres irrorated with shining green scales.
Expanse of wings 28 mm. Type in the
collection of the author.
I have assigned this species in a gen-
eral way to Lycaena Fabr., feeling un
able to refer it to any of the recent
subdivisions of the genus instituted by
the Indian lepidopterists, without such
an examination of the neuration as I do
.
not feel justified in making with only
one specimen at my disposal. It is very
different in appearance from any othel
species of the group known to me, and
recalls Psetidodfpsas cephenes Hew.,
so far as the coloration of the upperside of the secondaries is concerned.
ON AN IMPORTANT CHARACTER,
HITHERTO LITTLE NOTICED, IN THE
FAMILY BUPRESTIDAE.
BY FREDERICK BLANCHARD.
In Comstock's Introduction to Entomology, part i, the many excellencies of which and its fresh treatment of the subject lead ui> to hope for the early appearance of the succeeding parts, on page 18, there is given a figure of the underside of Euchroma gipantea Linn. in
which is shown the antecoxal piece of the me- tastemum, separated by a short transverse su- ture, the ends arcuately bent towards and reaching the hind coxae. This appears to be the first distinct reference to this pecu- liarity of the Buprestidae so far as I can learn. Deyrolle, in his Buprestides de la Malasie, plate 4, figs. 3 and 4 exhibits the same thing, but in fig. 25, illusitrating the underside of a species of Pachyscelis, the suture is not indi- cated. There is, however, no reference to the antecoxal piece in the text.
From the examination of a considerable
number of genera in this family during the last few years, both native and foreign, it ap- pears that this structure is always present and is of much greater importance in limiting the family than the connate first and second ven- trals chiefly depended upon heretofore.
Although the members of the family Bu-
prestidae are usually quite easily recognized, some early errors would have been avoided had this character been observed or appreci- ated; in our own fauna, notably in the case of the genus Schizopus Lee., for the recep- tion of which a distinct family, the Schizo- podidae, was created although afterwards suppressed.
It need hardly be said that the existence ot an antecoxal piece, seen elsewhere among Co- leoptera, SO far as I know, only in the Ade- phaga, where the importance of its existence and of its modifications have been so skilfully demonstrated by Dr. Horn, does not necessa- rily imply any relationship of the Buprestidae to that series, but adds another, and a most impressive one, to the many known instances of the repetition of characters or structures in widely different families, which have been noticed by writers, and especially by Dr. Horn.
HARRISIMEMNA TRISIGNATA-I found two
of these grotesque larvae on Spiraea fomen- tow, Sept. zznd, Northborough, Mass. The only food-plant given by Mr. Edwards is
'Syrfngn." The larva bored into bits of
rotten wood, and "backed out" with the
chips. These chips were rolled into neat pellets of almost uniform size, very round, Ps\&e 6 053-54 (pre.1903) hfp //psyche aitclub org/#6-0353 htd



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and evidently kept in shape by some gummy secretion applied by the larva. Each pellet was about one-sixteenth inch in diameter and all could be rolled about without crum- bling. When the burrow was finished the
larva "backed in" and closed the opening with a thin, transparent. parchment-like door. It took over twenty-four hours to make the, burrow and seal it. C. G. Soule.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.-Mr. C. P. Gil-
lette, formerly entomologist at the Experi- ment Station at Ames, Iowa, has removed to Colorado to take a similar position at Fort Collins.
A continuation of Mr. J. H. Emerton's
New England spiders appears in the last
part of the Transactions of the Connecticut Academy. It concerns the Drassidae (33
sp.), Agalenidae (11 sp.), and Dysderidae (2 sp.), with six plates crowded with excel- lent figures; more than half the species are regarded as new.
Baron Osten Sacken has suggested in the
February number of the Entomologists'
monthly magazine a new classification of the families of nemocerous Diptera.
A timely and convenient catalogue of the described transformations of North American Coleoptera by W. Beutenm tiller will be
found in the January number of the journal of the New York microscopical society.
L'ABEILLE, the journal of entomology
founded by the late abbe Marseul, and by him carried through twenty-six volumes, is to be continued by the Entomological Soci- ety of Paris, to which he bequeathed it. Mr. L. Bedel has been chosen editor, and the twenty-seventh volume is now in press. The journal, as formerly, will be devoted mainly to Old World Coleoptera, and the frequency of its issue will depend upon subscriptions and sales.
PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES.
CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB.
8 June, 1.888.-The 139th meeting was held at 156 Brattle St. Mr. J. H. Emerton was chosen chairman.
Mr. C. W. Woodworth exhibited speci-
mens of a species of Typhlocyba found on the rose, to which they are very injurious. He also showed a specimen of a species of Jassidae found on the apple.
No jassids
have before been found on that tree.
Mr. S. H. Scudder remarked on the num-
ber of subsegments in the larvae of butter- flies. Mr. Scudder has applied this to the position of Libythea, which has been vari- ously placed in the Pierinae, Nymphalidae, and Erycininae,
Mr. Scudder stated that most of the changes in the larvae of the Lepidoptera, such as moults, etc., occur before ten o'clock in the morning.
Mr. S. å£3 Scudder mentioned the finding of the larva of Oeneis semidea which had formed a very slight silken cocoon for pu- pating.
It is now a pupa.
9 November, 1888.-The 140th meeting of
the Club was held at 156 Brattle St.
Mr.
J. H. Emerton was chosen chairman.
Mr. J. H. Emerton exhibited some draw-
ings of spiders made by himself and Mr. Ed- win Sheppard for Dr. H. C. McCook of
Philadelphia.
Mr. S. H. Scudder showed a collection of butterflies brought together to illustrate mim- icry in this country. Considerable discussion of the subject of protective mimicry followed. Prof. C. H. Fernald spoke of the work of the State experiment stations, established under the new act of Congress appropriating a sum of money to each state for the purpose, and especially of the Hatch Experiment Sta- tion of the Amherst Agricultural College, of which station he is entomologist.
Mr. S. Henshaw read a paper for Miss
Caroline G. Soule on a mode of preserving pupae of Sphingidae through the winter.
Mr. H. Hinkley spoke of forcing the early emergence of Sphingidae by keeping the pu- pae at room temperature.
Mr. S. H. Scudder described how Mr. S.
L. Elliot kept his pupae through the winter, and mentioned the opportunity offered by a cold storage company in Boston for winter- ing hibernating insects.
Mr. H. Hinkley described a double cocoon of Attacus promethea.




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