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April 1S92.1 pis- YG'HE. 261
SYNONYMY OF BUTTERFLY PARASITES.-
A critical study of the American Apanteles parasitic upon butterflies convinces me that there are but four species instead of the six- teen described by Prof. Riley in Mr, Scud- der's Butterflies of the eastern U. S.
These
are A. megathymi (ovipositor long,
stigma
white), A. cayjatus (ovipositor long, stigma dark), A. cassianus (ovipositor concealed, two deep diverging grooves forming a tri- angle on disk of second segment), and A. glomeratus (ovipositor concealed. no triangle on disk of second segment).
A. Bdwardsii, ema~girtatus (ensiger Say) are synonyms of A. carfiaf!is Say; the others are synonyms of A. glomeratzis; A. fteclae is a well marked variety of A. glomeratus Linn. Wm. Hamjtofz Patton.
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES. -It is stated in
Science that the friends of the late Henry Edwards have subscribed $10,000 and the
American Museum of Natural History
$5,000 for the purchase of his entomo-
logical collection, consisting of more
than 350,000 specimens, and this scientific treasure goes to the American Museun~.
This enterprise has been carried through by Mr. A. M. Palmer, and other theatrical
friends of Mr. Edwards.
More than half of the "Supplementary ap- pendix" Mr. Whymper has recently published to his travels amongst the Great Andes is given up to Coleoptera, and almost the
whole ofit to insects with numerous excellent woodcuts engraved by Whymper himself.
The introduction by the late H. W. Bates gives a couf d'd of the whole collection mostly made over goo0 and even over nooo feet above the sea, and shows that there is no trace of "any distinct element of a north temperate or south temperate coleopterous fauna on the Ecuadorian Andes . . . A few genera belonging to temperate latitudes, though not found in the tropical lowlands, do indeed occur, but they are forms of almost world-wide distribution in similar climates, and there is no representative of the numer- ous characteristic and common genera of the north or south. Even the northern genera more or less abundantly found on the Mexi- can highlands are absent." So, too, among the butterflies, "the genera Erebia, Chieno- bas, Parnassius, Argynnis, Epinephele, and many others, so highly characteristic of the faunas of the north temperate zone or Chili, or both, and of high vertical ranges, are quite absent." It seems to Bates a fair de- duction that "no distinct traces of a migra- tion during the lifetime of existing species from north to south, or vice versa, along the Andes, have as yet been discovered or are now likely to be discovered."
The March number of the Entomologists'
monthly magazine contains an interesting account by W. W. Smith of the formation of new colonies and nests by two species of New Zealand ants of the genus Tetramorium.
According to him they originate by the
union of several individuals of both sexes on sites beneath stones among the roots of
plants already instinctively selected and in- habited by Aphides and Coccids, which serve as an economic basis while founding their nests.
PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES.
CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB.
8 Jan., 1892.
The 167th regular meeting
and 16th annual meeting (since incorpora- tion) was held at 156 Brattle Street. Mr. J. H. Emerton was elected chairman.
The annual report of the retiring Secre- tary, Mr. R. Hayward, was read and ac-
cepted. Mr. S. Henshaw, the retiring Treas- urer, presented his annual report which was accepted subject to the approval of the audi- tors. The retiring librarian, Mr. S. H.
Scudder, presented a verbal report of the condition of the Club library which was ac- cepted.
The election of officers for 1892 being next in order the Club proceeded to ballot, and the following officers were declared elected:



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262 PS YCHE. [April 1892.
President, Rev. W. J. Holland, of Pittsburgh, Pa. ; Secretary, Roland Hayward ; Treasurer, Samuel Henshaw; Librarian, Samuel H.
Scudder; Members at large of Executive
Committee, J. H. Emerton and S. H. Scudder. The Secretary announced that the address of the retiring President had not been re- ceived.
Voted to authorize the Treasurer to sell the non-entomological works in the Club's library and devote the proceeds to the payment of debts incurred in the publication of vol. i; of Psyche.
Mr. S. H. Scudder gave a brief account of h is studies of the tertiary Rhynchophora of North America of which he had just com-
pleted a monograph for the U. S. geological survey.
Mr. J. H. Emerton showed drawings of
various Thomisidae and remarked briefly on work which he had recently been doing in this family.
Mr. A. P. Morse recorded the capture of
Melanoplus junius Dodge at Jackson, N. H., Jay, Vt., Montgomery, Vt., and North Con- way, N. H., from July 3-30.
He also stated
that he had taken a specimen of Hespero- tettix viridis at Wellesley, Mash.
12 February 1892.-The 168th meeting of
theclub was held at 156 Brattle St., Mr. S. Henshaw in the chair. Mr. A. P. Morse was chosen secretary pro tempore.
A letter from Dr. W. J. Holland was read accepting the office of president of the club for the ensuing year. It was voted to make Mr. B. Pickman Mann a life-member in con- sideration of his striking off fifty dollars of the indebtedness due him on account of vol. iv of Psyche.
The address of the retiring president, Prof. F. H. Snow, of the University of Kansas, on "Experiments for the destruction of chinch bugs by infection", was read by Mr. Scudder. Mr. S. H. Scudder exhibited some beetles from Sonora, Mexico, of the genus Caryoba- rus, family Bruchidae, with the palm-seeds from which they emerged.
Also, with criti-
cal remarks, some inflated larvae he had recently received of several European and Asiatic butterflies.
11 March, 1892 -The 169th meeting was
held at 156 Brattle St., Mr. S. H. Scudder in the chair.
In showing the recent additions to the
library, the librarian called attention to a paper by Dr. Urech'on the colors of the
scales of butterflies addressed to the Club by the author, the address being written " with the decocted wing colors in butterflies of Vanessa ui-ticae."
Mr. S. H. Scudder exhibited a series of
about 500 specimens of the Orthopteran
genus Hippiscus which had served as the
base of a study of the group he had recently completed. Saussure in 1884 and 1888 had separated two groups which he regarded as genera, Hippiscus and Xanthippus, and had placed in the former seven species, in the latter ten, with one he had not seen in an un- certain position, in all eighteen species. In this revision they are divided into three groups regarded as subgenera, Hippiscus
with eleven species, five of them new;Sticht- hippus (not seen by Saussure) with two
species, both of them new; and Xanthippus with twenty-five species, fifteen of them new; in all thirty-eight species. Two of Saussure's species, Hij5$i.<;cus ocelote from Mexico, and Xantht'f$t~s lateritius from Nevada, not seen, are included in these, some few changes in specific nomenclature have been required, and one species provis- ionally placed by Saussure in Xanthippus has been removed elsewhere ; a different arrange- ment of the species is proposed, particularly in Hippiscus, and two described species
not seen by Saussure are definitely placed. He also exhibited some blood-red larvae
about 5 mm. long brought him as having
been sent from Berkshire Co. by a man who thought they had fallen in myriads with the last fall of snow. They appeared to be of a species of Sciara or allied genus of flies, and their occurrence in midwinter, full grown and living on the surface of snow, appeared to be new.




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