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Psyche 6:150, 1891.

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150 PSYCHE. [September 1891.
tip of the anal hook, and was slightly larger, especially around the abdomen. The dates of finding this larva and of its pupation were the same with that of last year, and the place was within a foot of the spot where last year's larva was found ! Caroline G. Smile. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. - With the me-
thodical precision which marks the work
of the entomologists of the Austrian capital, Redtenbacher, in the id part of the Ver- handlungen of the zoological-botanical
society of Vienna for 1891, gives a mono- graph of the locustarian subfamily Conoce- phalinae which extends to nearly 250 pp. and is accompanied by two excellent folding
plates. Redtenbacher divides the group into four tribes: Conocephalini with 25 genera and 166 species (3 genera and 12 species from the United States) ; Agroeciini with 30 genera and 94 species; Xiphidiini with 3 genera and 68 species (I genus and 17
species from the United States); and List- roscelini with 6 genera and 35 species.
Conocephalus alone has IOL species and
Xiphidium (including Orchelimum, separ-
ated only as a subgenus) 66 species; the only United States species not contained in Conocephalus (7 sp.) and Xiphidium (17 sp.) are Belocefkaliis subaperns Scudd. and
Pyrgoco~ypka uncinafa (ConocejMalus
uncinatus Harr.).
At the July meeting of the Entomological society of London, it was stated by Dr. T. A. Chapman, an excellent observer, that the larva of Micropteryx, one of the lower Lepi- doptera, possesses on each of the eight
abdominal segments "a pair of minute jointed legs of the same type as the thoracic. There are also a pair of long jointed antennae." To an interesting and very thorough de-
scription of an hermaphroditic spider, Bert- kau appends a catalogue of recent cases and states that 361 hermaphroditic Arthropoda are now known, of which 9 are Crustacea, 3 Arachnids, and 349 insects, divided as fol- lows : 2 Orthoptera, 11 Diptera, 267 Lepi- doptera, 59 Hymenoptera, and 10 Coleop-
tera. In 165 cases where the separation is lateral, 8s are males on the right side, 71 on the left, leaving g uncertain.
PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES.
CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB.
14 March, 1890.-The 152d meeting was
held at 156 Brattle St. Mr. S. Henshaw was chosen chairman.
Mr. S. H. Scudder exhibited illustrations showing the work done by- beetles in the staves of the Ottawa water works, described in a letter from Mr. James Fletcher, read at the last meeting.
Mr. Scudder stated that he had completed his work on Fossil insects of the West,
planned for Hayden's Survey some fifteen years ago. It contains descriptions of some 612 species.
He further showed a tintype of
carboniferous cockroaches from the coal de- posits of Rhode Island. They were nearly all of them collected near Silver Spring, a suburb of Providence.
11 April, 1890.-The 153d meeting of the
Club was held at 156 Brattle St., Mr. S. Hen'- shaw in the chair.
Mr. Henshaw read a letter from Mr. Elli- son A. Smyth, Jr., on some southern Lepidop- tera. In this article mention was made of the capture of two specimens of Neonyiifpha canthus near Charleston, S. C. (See Psyche, 1890, v. 5, p. 348.) A short discussion fol- lowed on some of our spring butterflies. Mr. S. H. Scudder exhibited specimens of some Gryllidae recently received from a cor- respondent in Spain, of the genus Platy- blemmus, in which the front of
the head is
prolonged and dilated into a flat plate, re- sembling somewhat the clypeus of some
Scarabaeidae.
Mr. Scudder recorded the occurrence of
Pteromalus as parasitic on Jasom'ades glau- cus, Eu-phoeades f~oilus, Papilio polyxenes, and Eufkydryas phaeton. He also read a
letter from Mr. James Fletcher, in which was noted the occurrence of several specimens of Erebia discoidalis at Sudbury, Ont.




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