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Psyche 6:300, 1891.

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300 PSYCHE. [~ugust 1802.
on last segment consisting of four horny, reddish-brown, more or less curved, trans- versely corrugated ridges on each side, a small pit just above and between them; a swelling or prominence below them which is bounded inferiorly by a crescentic transverse furrow, the margin of the segment below
furrow being more or less strongly notched. Length, 19 to 22 mm. ; width of 6th segment, 5 to 6.5 mm. Described from five specimens perhaps not fully grown, collected Oct.
10.
San Andres Mts., New Mexico.
DOHRN AND BURMEISTER.
Two Nestors of entomology have recently
passed away within two days of each
other,
born in the first and dying in the last decade of the century. Dr. C. A. Dohrn was born in 1806 and Dr. Hermann Burmeister in 1807 ; the former died May 4, the latter May 2 last. Dohrn was especially known as a coleopterist and as the head and front of the Entomological society of Stettin, Germany.
Burmeister oc-
cupied many fields, not only in entomology, but in general zoology, in geology and espec- ially in paleontology during the past 30 years, since his appointment to the direc- torship of the National museum of Buenos Aires. He was buried at the cost of the
state and the President of the republic was present at his funeral. Dr. Carlos Berg
another entomologist of distinction, long his assistant, succeeds him as director of the museum.
PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES.
CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB.
13 May, 1892.-The 171st meeting was
held at 156 Brattle St. Mr. S. H. Scudder was chosen chairman and Mr. A. P. Morse
secretary pro tempore.
Mr. A. B. Mayer was elected to active
membership.
Mr. S. H. Scudder called attention to a
short discussion by Emery in the February Bulletin of the Soci6tfi Vaudoise (v. 27, p. 258) on the origin of the ant fauna of Europe, This bot must occasionally continue
all winter in the animals, as small ones, .
apparently this species, were taken from cotton-tails shot Oct 24 and 29.
On Oct. 14, a jack-rabbit was shot
which had a small sacbeneath the skin,
apparently containing young bots.
Closer examination revealed only re-
mains of small bots, which had died
from some cause.
a result of his studies of the ants found in Sicilian amber as compared with those of the amber of Samland and the existing fauna of Europe. The existing fauna he divides into three groups, a boreal, an Indian (those having Indo-Aubtralian and South African affinities), and a cosmopolitan, and remarks regarding the first two that in passing from the north southward or from the present time to the amber epoch, the boreal group dimin- ishes and the Indian group increases in im- portance; the former is absent from the
Sicilian amber and the latter in the existing Scandinavian fauna. He is of the opinion that an Indian fauna inhabited Europe in eocene time and that a new fauna, derived from the polar regions, advanced upon it, but was checked in its southward march by the sea which then crossed middle Europe, so that it never reached sofar as Sicily although it left its impress on the fauna of the Baltic amber.
Mr. Morse exhibited a specimen of that
rarity, the male of Pelecinus $olycerator, taken by him at Provincetown, Mass., in
September. He also showed two males of
Colias interior collected at the summit of Kearsarge Mountain, near North Conway,
N. H., July 2, 1891, and several specimens of Colias $hilodice showing variations in the discal spot on the upper surface of the fore wings; these, in one male, were almost en- tirely absent, and, in a white female, very large and triangular with the apex and
longest sides directed outward.




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~ugust 1~92.1 PSYCHE. 301
HIPPISCUS (H.) VARIEGATUS sp. nov.
Similar in form and color to H. com$uctus but with the disk of the prothorax generally rather lighter and more often marked by a pallid decussate stripe, which is here found even in the $ ; sculpture of the head not differing from that species, excepting that the ridges about the foveolae are if anything duller and that the frontal costa is slightly sulcate below the ocellus. Antennae luteous at base, beyond reddish fuscous. Prono-
turn as in H. comfacfus but with the hind margin more obtusely angled, and the carina of the prozona independently though feebly arcuate. Tegmina cinereous or hoary, becom- ing semipellucid apically, with markings much as in H. com'pacfus, but less regular, more maculate, more oblique, the central spot usually very broad, the marginal field much more numerously spotted, and the spots of the axillary area generally more distinct, be- ing deeper and more sharply defined; the tegmina are relatively longer. Wings also relatively longer and narrower, but with mark- ings precisely as in the preceding species, ex- cepting that the basal color is variable (as indeed it may be there), varying from a pallid tint through pale lemon yellow to saffron and coral red, the last in a single example. Hind femora bright yellow within, thrice heavily banded transversely with black, dull clay yellow without, very obliquely banded with blackish or fuscous ; hind tibiae yellow with an orange tinge sometimes infuscated a little just beyond a broad clear basal belt; spines black tipped.
Length of body, 8, 28 mm., ?,37 mm. ; of tegmina, 8, 28 mm., $ , 35.5 mm.
I have seen specimens from Penn-
sylvania (Schaum coll.) , Maryland
(Uhler, Brunei-), Washington, D. C. * -
(Bruner), and Georgia (Morrison), in
the east, and Indiana (H. Edwards),
southern Illinois (Kennicott) , and To-
peka, Kansas, collected by Cragin
(Bruner), in the west. Mr. Bruner also
tells me that he has specimens from
Virginia, Decatur, Ala., Chattanooga,
Term., and Mississippi, in the south,
and from Indiana, Illinois, Missouri,
Kansas, and eastern Nebraska, in the
north.
Described from 13 3, 8 9, part of
them from Mr. Henshaw's collection.
HIPPISCUS (H.) SUTURALIS sp. nov.
H/#pisczis rugosus McNeill !, Psyche, 6, 63. One of the smallest species of the genus, with somewhat compressed body, expanding . but sli'ghtly on the metazona, of the same tone of color and general appearance as the three preceding species. Head dusky above, obscure olivaceous below, the summit nearly smooth with a nearly circular, very shallow and smooth, feebly quadripartite scutellum ; lateral foveolae small, shallow, triangular, a little elongated ; frontal costa feebly convex but depressed at and immediately below the ocellus, at its upper extremity very feebly bifoveolate. Antennae dull testaceous at base, blackish fuscous apically. Pronotum much as in H. coq5actus, but the angle of the posterior margin distinctly obtuse.
Tegmina with the darker blackish fuscous markings predominating on the basal half, so that before the great central quadrate dark spot which includes the triangular base of the outer discoidal area, there are but two pairs of small quadrate cinereous spots be- neath each other in the marginal and inner discoidal fields; the apical portion of the marginal field is blackish fuscous and in the



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