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Psyche 6:198, 1891.

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198 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 Duzee 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 mare 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 flie? 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- dominal appendages by sections on the ex- ternal male organs of generation, the fleshy 1 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 rnte the work 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 Ichnumon the only chance the Nabis had of reaching its internal juices would be through the anal opening. Mr.
Wailly exhibited larvae of Citheronia regalis in various stages bred from eggs received from Iowa and thought to be the first bred in England; Prof. J. Μφ Smith of New Jersey took part in a discusbion which followed upon the habits of the larva. Dr. Sharp
showed a weevil, Bctojsis ferrugiilis 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 ENTOMOLOGICAL 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. Henbhaw was chosen chairman.
Remarks were made concerning the recent
death of Mr. Holmes Hinkley, one of the
more active inernbeis 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 Gale~ita janus, Chlaenius fomenfosus, Luchnosternafvsca, and Trichius figey, all of which exhibited some curious malformations. (See Psyche, v. 6; p. 89-93, pi. 2.)




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