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Psyche 6:197, 1891.

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December IS~I.]
NADATA BIBBOSA. -Eggs laid July 30th.
They were small, hemispherical, the flat side' attached to the
leaf; opaque yellow with a
white bloom all over them.
Aug. 5th they hatched, the young larva
being not quite
inch long, clear yellow in
color, with short, sparse hairs, and very slender anal props. The head was very
large. and the body tapered from it to the anal props.
Aug. 9. First moult. i inch long, taper- ing as before. Head large, round. green. Body green with yellow lateral line. Sparse hairs visible only with a lens. Feet and prop's green.
Aug. 13. 2nd moult. 4 inch in length.,
Head very large, round, bilobed, very yellow green. Body tapering to anal props, white- green in color, with a pale yellow lateral line, or band. Sparse hairs. Feet and props green. The colors grew paler.
Aug. 19. fd moult. 2 inch in length.
Anal shield edged with yellow.
Otherwise
as before.
Aug. 25. 4th moult, I* inches long. Head large, round, with a deep suture, white-green, lighter on top. Body blue-green, dotted
with white, and so thickly dotted on the dorsum as to look almost white. Lateral
line yellow in some specimens, almost white in others.
Anal shield edged with yellow.
Feet and props green.
Spiracles white en-
circled with tan-color. They grew to I&
inches in length, were stout, and had the general shape of the "cut-worms." Sept.
4th the first one stopped eating, grew a little purplish on the back and sides, and spun a thin web on the bottom of the tin.
Sept. 9th. Pupa appeared. It was 6 inch
long, stout, shining, very dark brown, a little lighter between the segments. Abdom- inal segments pitted. Eye-cases very smooth and prominent. Anal hook short, bifur-
cated.
Caroline G. Soule.
A CORRECTION. -I have referred to the,
sycamore in my description of Heterocampa, unicolor and again in that of Hal/.sidota harrlsil [Phyche, v. 6, p. 164) as Acer, pseudo-platanus. This is a mistake for Pla- fami.? occidentalis.
Harrison G. Dyur..
NOTES :- Candfeze has just issued at ~i4~ei a systematic catalogue of Elateridae known* in 1890:
The price ib six francs.
The last number of the Canadian entoniol- ogist is especially valuable from its contain- ing two interesting papers read to the Ento- mological club of the American association for the advancement of science, in August;, viz., Mr. H. G. Hubbard's account of Insect-, life in the hot springs of the Yello~stone~ National Park, and Mr. E. A. Schwarz's Pre-< liminary remarks on the insect-fauna of the, Great Salt Lake, Utah.
The 8th part of Moore's Lepidoptera In-
dica contains a table of the genera of Indian Satyrinae, 56 in number, and descriptions of the species of seven of the genera, together' with the usual eight plates. It i's interesting, as figuring a considerable number of dry and wet season broods of Indian Satyrinae distin-I guished bv de Nic6ville. The early stages of two species only are given. The notes upon the distribution of the species are interesting, and extensive, as usual. We notice one typ-, ographical error in the inco~ I ect type ubedi in the heading for Virapa ;å´;zdza
The September number of the Entomologi-
sche nachrichten is entirely given up to a new systematic arrangement and synoptic table, of the genera of Aeschnidae, by Dr. F.
Karsch, in which he criticises the previous system of de Selya.
W. A. Wagner publishes in the Bulletin of. the Moscow society of naturalists (1890,626), a full description of tlie structure and habits of anew trap-door spider, Tarentula opiphex, which is specially interesting as being the,



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PSYCHE.
[December 1891.
first known instance of a spider making an operculate burrow, outside of the Territel- ariae; the paper is accompanied by an ex- cellent plate.
Mr. E. P. Van Dnzee has published in the Bulletin of the Buffalo society of natural sciences an annotated list of the Macrolep- idoptera of the vicinity of Buffalo, number- ing 777 species. The relative abundanceand station of most of the species are given. Two m~re newworks upon British insects
are now under way. Mr. Charles G. Barrett, one of the editors of the Entomologist's monthly magazine, is publishing through
Reeve and Company a descriptive account
of the families. genera, and species of Lepi.. doptera of the British Islands with an ac- count of their preparatory stages, habits, and localities. It is to be issued by parts in a large and small paper form for 54 and 10 shillings respectively. The second work is an account of British flies by F. B. Theobald, which is published by Elliot Stock. Six
parts are to appear annually at a shilling <each, but the extent of the work is not indi- cated in the advertisement of the same.
The seventh part of Kolbe's Introduction to the knowledge of insects completes in about twenty pages the account of the ab- dominiil appendages by sections on the ex- ternal male organs of generation, the fleshy legs of many larvae, and a few minor topics, besides a bibliography of the subject which itself extends over half a dozen pages; this and the other special bibliographies, of which this part has several of much value, would be more convenient if more orderly; they appear to be neither alphabetical nor chrono- logical and to have been somewhat hastily compiled. The internal organs occupy the rest of the part; first the hard parts and then the muscles, though in this the order of the prospectus is slightly violated. All the sub- jects are treated in the same excellent man- ner as in the earlier parts, but at the present rate the ~\ork will not be finished for several years.
At the October meeting of the Entomo-
logical Society of London Mr. Johnson ex- hibited a specimen of Nabis killed while holding its prey, a very hard species of Ich- neumon; Mr. Saunders thought that from
the nature of the Ichnutnon the only chance the Nabis had of reaching its internal juices would be through the anal opening. Mr.
Wailly exhibited larvae of CMieronia regalis in various stages bred from eggs received from Iowa and thought to be the first bred in England ; Prof. J.
13. Smith of New Jersey
took part in a discussion which followed upon the habits of the larva. Dr. Sharp
showed a weevil, Ectofsisferwgulis of New Zealand, the ends of the elytra of which bore a close resemblance to the section of a twig cut with a sharp knife.
PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES.
CAMBRIDGE EN1 OMOLOGICAL CLUB.
13 FEBRUARY, 1891.-The 160th meeting of
the Club was held at 156 Brattle St. Mr. S. H. Scudder was chosen chairman.
Mr. S. H. Scudder showed two of the
specimens of Zopherus mentioned by him in Psyche (v. 5, p. 406) which were still living. He albo exhibited some interesting figures of fossil Rhynchophora from Florissant, Col. 13 MARCH, 1891.-The 161st meeting of
the Club was held at 156 Brattle St. Mr. S. Henshaw was chosen chairman.
Remarks were made concerning the recent
death of Mr. Holmes Hinkley, one of the
more active members and a member of the
Executive Committee.
An informal discussion followed on the
monstrosities of Coleoptera, in which all par- ticipated. Mr. S. H. Scudder showed one
specimen each of Galerita Janus, Chlaenius tomentosus, Lachnosternafusca, and Trichius #tg-er, all of which exhibited some curious n~alformations. (See Psyche, v. 6; p. 89-93, pi. 2.)




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